Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 1:11

11 All her people sigh , they seek bread , they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul : see, O LORD, and consider, for I am become vile .

He speaketh probably with reference to the siege, after which the people had scarcely any pleasant things to exchange for Bread. The whole body of the people was in a sad condition, and in a Land that ordinarily flowed with Milk and Hony they were at loss for bread to eat.

And gave any thing for something to satisfie their hunger.

The Prophet sends up a sudden ejaculation to God much like that ver. 6. The argument he useth is drawn from the misery the people were in, expressed under the notion of being become vile, that is miserable or contemptible.

Marginal references: Jer. 52.6.; Or, to mak[illegible: 1 letter] the soul to co[illegible: 2 letters] again.