Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 1:3

3 Judah is gone into captivity, because of affliction, and because of great servitude : she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest▪ : all her persecutors overtook her between the straits .

This is expounded as the cause why the Jews were carried into Captivity, because of the servitude, and oppression exercised amongst them, oppression by their Rulers, and servitude more generally, keeping their servants beyond the year of Iubilee, when they ought to have set them at liberty, and that this was one cause appeareth from Ier. 34.17. or if because of a[illegible: 1 letter]fliction, &c. be joined to the next words, the sense is plain she dwelleth amongst the Heathen, by reason of her low condition, and the state of servitude she is in.

Where she (that is the Jews) have neither any satisfaction nor quiet in their own minds, nor are they by their Enemies suffered to be at quiet any where.

Those that pursued them with all violence to destroy them▪ overtook them in places where they could not escape them, as Huntsmen and others take their game by driving them into strait and narrow places.

Marginal references: Heb. for the greatness of servitude.