Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 1:9

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts , she remembreth not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter : O LORD behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself .

He persisteth in his comparison of the Jewish people either, to a slu[illegible: 2 letters]ish nasty Woman, or to an impudent Woman that is not ashamed to expose her nastiness or wickedness to the view of all.

That is the Jews never considered or would not believe what those degrees of sin would at last bring them to, and that hath been the cause of that prodigious calamity into which God had brought them.

The Prophet turns himself to God whom he desires to behold the affliction of this people, that is with a pitiful compassionate eye. It is a very usual thing in Holy Scripture, to signifie the acts of the heart by the acts of the inward and outward senses, those especially of the Memory, Eye and Ear, because objects must be first brought in by the senses before they can affect the Soul. Hence (the Scripture speaking of God after the manner of men,) the Servants of God desiring God to have compassion on them, shew them favour, &c. desire him to behold and look upon their affliction.

Marginal references: Deut. 32.29.