Jeremiah 14:2

Jer 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Ver. 2. Judah mourneth. ] The prophet’s pitiful complaint, bitterly bewailing the common calamity, and labouring thereby to bring them to a sense of the true cause of it, their sins. See 2 Samuel 21:1 . See Trapp on " 2Sa 21:1 "

And the cry of Jerusalem is gone up, ] sc., To heaven, for removal of this judgment. Compare Jeremiah 36:9 ; Jeremiah 14:12 .