Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 14:2

2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up .

By Judah is meant the men, and women in the whole country of Judah. The gates is put for their Cities, or the men of their Cities languished, for want of moisture for themselves or their beasts. They are all in the habits of Mourners or their faces looked swarthy, and starvedly, for want of due and wholesome nourishment, and the cry of Hierusalem is gone up, either their cry unto God by their Prayers in his Temple, or their cry by the reason of their Misery and Grief is gone up to Heaven.