Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them].
Ver. 3. Their blood have they shed like water] Contemptim vel abiecte. They made no more reckoning of it than of ditch water; and were ready to say, as Hannibal did when he saw a ditch full of men's blood, O formosum spectaculum! O beautiful sight!
And there was none to bury them] Either none to bury them at all, which the Jews accounted worse than death, Ecclesiastes 6:3, and the Romans extreme cruelty, Immanitatis est Scythicae non sepelire mortuos (Sen. ad Martiam); or none to bury them cum ritibus, with the accustomed rites and ceremonies, as Jacob was buried, Genesis 50:1,13, but not Jeconiah, Jeremiah 22:18 .