Verse 18
(18) Their heart.—The possessive pronoun does not refer to any immediate antecedent, but points, with a wild abruptness, to the mourners of Zion. Yet more boldly their cry is an appeal to the “wall” of Zion (comp. Lamentations 2:8, and Isaiah 14:31), to take up its lamentation, as though it were a human mourner.
Like a river.—Better, like a torrent.
The apple of thine eye.—Literally, “the daughter,” as in the English phrase, the “pupil” of the eye.
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