Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 1:15

15. The LORD hath troden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me : he hath called an assembly against me, to crush my young men : the LORD hath troden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress .

In the midst of me, may be interpreted either as pleonastical, or as denoting the place in which they lost their valiant men, viz. in the midst of the City during the siege not in the Field▪

Instead of those solemn assemblies that were wont to be called together within Hierusalem by sound of Trumpet for the solemn Worship of God: God had called an assembly of Chaldeans as Adversaries against the City, to crush the inhabitants of it.

God had troden upon the Jews as men use to stamp Grapes in a Winepress, where they use to crush them to pieces to get out the juice, and then they throw the husks that are good for nothing upon the dunghills. These are but various expressions to set out the misery which God had brought this people for their Sins into.

Marginal references: Or, the w[illegible: 3 letters] press of the Vi[illegible: 1 letter] gin.