Verse 49
"Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not,
without any intermission.
Till Jehovah look down,
and behold from heaven.
Mine eye affecteth my soul
because of all the daughters of my city.
They have chased me sore like a bird,
they are mine enemies without cause.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone upon me.
Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off."
"They are mine enemies without cause" (Lamentations 3:52). Ash and other scholars refer to these words as "a puzzle ... because they do not square with previous confessions of sin."[37] The explanation is simple enough. The particular enemies here were those of Jeremiah's own people, who were indeed his enemies `without cause.' Jeremiah had prophesied for them that they should remain in Jerusalem; but they hated him, refused to obey, and in all probability forced him to flee with them into Egypt. (We have written a full account of those events in Vol. II (Jeremiah) of my series of commentaries on the major prophets, pp. 454-458.) Here again, we find that the acceptance of Jeremiah as the author of Lamentations answers all the questions that arise.
"They have cut off my life in the dungeon" (Lamentations 3:53). These words are an accurate description of Jeremiah's imprisonment (Jeremiah 37:17-19).
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