For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Ver. 14. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones] They pity her, and wish her welfare; much more then dost thou. He argueth from that sweet, tender, melting frame of spirit that was found in the faithful, which is but a reflex of that far sweeter that is in God.
And favour the dust thereof] The ruins and the rubbish, heartily desiring and expecting a re-edification and restoration, whereof they had a sweet promise, Amos 9:9, and for the spiritual temple to be built of Jews and Gentiles, they had many more. See all that followeth.