Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed - (auticipated by Solomon in 1 Kings 8:46, "If they sin against thee, and thou be angry ... and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives"). Is removed - as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity. So Lamentations 1:17; end; Leviticus 12:2; Leviticus 15:19, etc.
They have seen her nakedness - they have treated her as contumeliously as courtezans from whom their clothes are stripped.
She ... turneth backward - as modest women do from shame; i:e., she is cast down from all hope of restoration (Calvin).
[Teth (T)]