They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Ver. 12. They shall mourn for the teats.] That is, for their grain and wine. The heathens called Ceres their goddess of plenty, πολυμασθον, Mammosam, full teated. Some sense it thus, Let them (infants) mourn for the teats denied them in this day of humiliation, Jon 3:5-6 or so dried up that there is no milk for them. Others render it, Beating upon their breasts, Plangentes pectora palmis.