Lamentations 1:12 - Exposition

Is it nothing to you? The Hebrew is very difficult, and the translation therefore insecure. Keil, however, adopts a rendering very near that of the Authorized Version "(Cometh it) not unto you?" i.e. "Do ye not heed it?" Ewald supposes the phrase to be abbreviated from "Do I not call unto you?" (comp. Proverbs 8:4 ); but this would be a very harsh construction. The Septuagint has οἱ πρὸς ὑμᾶς ; the Targum, "I adjure you;" the Vulgate, O vos ;—all apparently pronouncing lū instead of lō . At any rate, the object of the words is to heighten the force of the appeal which follows.