Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:19

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled? We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out *.

i. e. Ierusalem, spoken in the present tense after the Prophetical stile, being a frequent way of the Prophets expressing the certainty of a thing.

How great is our Misery? or how come we to be in such a desolate condition? possibly expressions of the Artificial Mourners, or rather their real sence of it, now it is all too late.

Wether this be the complaints of the country people forced to fly from their habitation to Ierusalem for shelter, or of Ierusalem it self, that could expect no less, it filled them with great consternation, that they who thought their houses should have continued for ever, because of Gods promise, Psal. 132.10, &c. must now forsake them, Lev. 18.25. Either their Persons carried out into Captivity, or have them utterly demolished by the Enemy.