Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:21
Lamentations 1:21. There is none to comfort me— Grief is timorous and suspicious, fertile in inventing torments for itself, scarcely brooking the least neglect, but entirely impatient of the least mockery or contempt. The prophet has beautifully expressed this circumstance in the passage before us. See Lamentations 1:7. The day, spoken of in the latter part of this verse, means that appointed for the execution of God's judgments upon the Babylonians and other enemies of the Jews, according to... read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:20
Lamentations 1:20. Abroad the sword, &c.— Without, the sword bereaveth; within, the mortality. Virgil has an expression remarkably similar to this: Crudelis ubique Luctus, ubique pavor, et plurima mortis imago. AEN. ii. l. 368. Death in a thousand forms destructive frown'd, And woe, despair, and horror rag'd around. PITT. Or, as our great poet describes the lazar-house, ———————————————Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook.... read more