Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 1:2
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Lamentations1:2
2. in the night--even in the night, the period of rest and oblivion of griefs (Job 7:3).
lovers ... friends--the heathen states allied to Judah, and their idols. The idols whom she "loved" (Jr 2:20-25) could not comfort her. Her former allies would not: nay, some "treacherously" joined her enemies against her (2Ki 24:2, 7; Psa 137:7).
Gimel.
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