All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
All her people sigh, they seek bread - (Jeremiah 37:21; Jeremiah 38:9, "There is no more bread in the city;" 52:6, "The famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land").
They have given their pleasant things for meat - (2 Kings 6:25, "There was a great famine in Samaria; and ... they besieged it, until an ass' head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver;" Job 2:4, "Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life").
To relieve the soul - literally, to cause the soul, or life, to return. For I am become vile. Her sins and consequent sorrows are made the plea in craving God's mercy. Compare the like plea, Psalms 25:11.
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