Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn - A fine prosopopoeia. The ways in which the people trod coming to the sacred solemnities, being now no longer frequented, are represented as shedding tears; and the gates themselves partake of the general distress. All poets of eminence among the Greeks and Romans have recourse to this image. So Moschus, in his Epitaph on Bion, ver. 1-3: - Αιλινα μοι στροναχειτε ναπαι, και Δωριον ὑδωρ <-144 Και ποταμοι κλαιοιτε τον ἱμεροεντα Βιωνα.π Νυν φυτα μοι... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 1:3
Between the straits - She has been brought into such difficulties, that it was impossible for her to escape. Has this any reference to the circumstances in which Zedekiah and the princes of Judah endeavored to escape from Jerusalem, by the way of the gates between the two walls? Jeremiah 52:7 . read more