Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 1:10

10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things : for she hath seen that the heathen entred into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation .

That is, hath got them into possession. By pleasant things are here to be understood the Ornaments of the Temple, upon which the Enemy had laid violent hands, so this phrase of spreading out the hand is taken; Isa. 25.11. The things of the Sanctuary are alwayes pleasant things to those that feared God. Possibly those that little valued them before, now looked upon them in their true notion. We seldom know our mercies till we come to be deprived of them.

He means the Ammonites, and Moabites whom the Law concerned, Deut. 23.3. Some of whom probably assisted the Babylonians in the conquest of Iudaea.

Marginal references: Or, desire[illegible: 2 letters].; Neh. 13.1.