Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 1:8

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Lamentations1:8

8. (1Ki 8:46).

is removed--as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity. So La 1:17; Le 12:2; 15:19, &c.

her nakedness--They have treated her as contumeliously as courtesans from whom their clothes are stripped.

turneth backward--as modest women do from shame, that is, she is cast down from all hope of restoration [Calvin].

Teth.

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