Lamentations 1:21

Lam 1:21 They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Ver. 21. They have heard that I sigh,. ] My friends have, and yet they pity me not: this was a great vexation, and is much complained of. See Lamentations 1:2 ; Lamentations 1:16-17 ; Lamentations 1:19 .

All mine enemies have heard of my trouble: they are glad.] This επιχαιρεκακια is the devil’s disease: the wicked compose comedies out of the saints’ tragedies, and revel in their ruins. But God’s people, in this case, have a double comfort: (1.) That God hath done it, and not the enemy; that he hath a holy hand in all the troubles that befall them. (2.) That their enemies shall not escape scot-free, but be soundly punished.

That thou hast done it. ] Or, But thou hast done it; and sure we are thou wilt not overdo.

Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called. ] The dismal day of vengeance that thou hast threatened Babylon with, especially by Isaiah and Jeremiah.

And they shall be like unto me. ] Their future desolation is my present consolation.