Verse 7
Jerusalem looked back on better times, now that she was in exile. She remembered how no other nations came to help her-but mocked her-when the Babylonians besieged her (e.g., Ammon, Moab, and Edom).
"The heathen used to mock at the Jews’ Sabbath, as showing their idleness, and term them Sabbatarians . . ." [Note: Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Practical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, p. 662.]
"To this day in Bible lands laughter does not occupy the place it does in the West. . . . In the vast majority of cases, laughter is linked with scorn [cf. Genesis 17:17; Genesis 18:12; Job 8:21; Psalms 126:2]." [Note: Ellison, p. 704.]
Mental anguish accompanied physical hardship.
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