Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 27:30

30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly , and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in ashes.

With greatest cries they shall make the Countrey eccho forth their sorrows.

Either standing on higher ground over-against the shipwrackt City, Or rather, for thee, those Eastern People did use to lift up their voice in mourning, Iob 2.12. Ier. 2.18, 19. and 31.15. Zech. 11.3.

Their weeping shall be from a deep sense of the misery of t[illegible: 2 letters]ir Friends, and this exprest by bitter cryes, so such sorrow is exprest, Zeph. 1.14. Isaiah 22.4. and 33.7.

Another expression of great distress, and sorrow proper to those Countreys, Iosh. 7.6. Iob. 2.12. Lam. 2.10. and Ier. 6.26.

Rowl themselves in ashes, which they used to do in their greatest mournings, as Mic. 1.10. and Ier. 6.26. as every Countrey hath its peculiar manners, and customs in mourning, so had these customs, that exprest most vehement sorrows in gestures, which we are not accustomed unto.