John Trapp on Lamentations 1:11

Ver. 11. All her people ſigh] And ſo think to eaſe their grief.

They ſhall ſeek bread] The ſtaff of life, which, without repaire by nutrition, would be ſoon extinct; ſo in the ſpiritual life; which made Job prefer the word before his neceſſary food. There is a famine of the Word, which is much worſe, Amos 8. Iſa. 5. Pray againſt it, and prevent it.

They have given their pleaſant things for meat] Which muſt be had at any rate: much more muſt the food of the ſoul.Act. & Mon. 750. Keckerm. praefat. Geograph. Our forefathers gave five Markes or more for a good book: a load of hay for a few Chapters of St. James or of St. Paul in Engliſh, ſaith Mr. Fox. The Queen of Caſtile ſold her jewels to furniſh Columbus, for his diſcovering voyage to the Weſt Indies, when he had ſhewed his Maps (though our Henry the ſeventh loth to part with mony, ſl[illegible: 1 letter]ghted his proffers) and thereby the golden mines were found, and gained to the Spaniſh Crown. Let no man think much to part with his pleaſant things for his precious ſoul: or to ſacrifice all that he hath to the ſervice of his life; which next to his ſoul ſhould be moſt dear unto him. Our anceſtours in Queen Maries dayes were glad to eat the bread of their ſouls in peril of their lives.

To relieve the ſoul] Heb. to make the ſoul come again. For Animantis cujuſque vita in fuga eſt: Life muſt be fetcht again by food, when it is fainting away.

See O Lord and conſider] Quam delicata epulatrix facta ſim, to what hard meat I am held, to how ſtrait an allowance: See it, and be ſenſible of my priſoners pittance, and how I have made many a meals meat upon the promiſes, when I have wanted bread, as that good woman once ſaid.