Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 1:16

16 For these things I weep, mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water , because the comforter that should relieve my soul, is far from me , my children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed .

For these sore afflictions, and for my sins that have caused them, and for these impressions of divine wrath which I discern in them Lord! I that am thy Prophet, and we that are Israelites indeed weep, and that plentifully;

having neither thee present with us as formerly to be our hope or comfort, nor any Friend that will deal by us as Friends sometimes do, by others in swooning fits to fetch back their souls.

Either the other Cities of Iudah (Ierusalem was the mother City) or my people, my inhabitants, are wasted destroyed, and made desolate, because the Enemy hath prevailed.

Marginal references: Jer. 13.17. and 14.17. chap. 2.18.; Heb. bring back.