How] a characteristic word for the commencement of an elegy: cp. Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 4:1-2; Isaiah 14:4.
Sit solitary] in the sense of empty houses and deserted streets. Provinces] the neighbouring countries, such as Edom and Moab.
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Lamentations 1:1
1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!