John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 1:10
The enemy hath spread out his hands on all her pleasant things ,.... Meaning not the wealth and riches, the goods and substance, or the rich furniture in their own houses; but the precious things in the house of God, the ark, the table, the altar, the priests garments, and vessels of the sanctuary, and the gifts of the temple, and everything valuable in it; these the enemy stretched out his hands and seized upon, and claimed them as his own; took them as a booty, prey, and plunder. Jarchi ... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness is in her skirts ,.... Her sin is manifest to all, being to be seen in her punishment. The allusion is to a menstruous woman, to whom she is compared, both before and after; whose blood flows down to the skirts of her garments, and there seen; by which it is known that she is in her separation. So the Targum, "the filthiness of the blood of her separation is in her skirts; she is not cleansed from it, nor does she repent of her sins:' she remembereth not her last end ;... read more