John Trapp on Lamentations 1:16

Ver. 16. For theſe things I weep] I Jeruſalem, as ver. 2. Or, I Jeremy: Ovid.Nam faciles motus mens generoſa capit.

Mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water] Continuitatem ſignificat: imo emphaſin dicit; Niobe-like I weep exceſſively, and without intermiſſion. God would not have the wounds of a godly ſorrow to be ever ſo healed up, but that they may bleed afreſh again upon all good occaſion. As for worldly ſorrow, there muſt be a ſtop put to it, left what we have over-wept, we be forced to unweep again.

Becauſe the comforter that ſhould relieve my ſoul is far from me] This was very ſad, and made both eyes run down with water. God ſtood aloof off, men were ſlack to ſhore up a poor ſinking ſoul. This was a condition and complaint not unlike that of Saul, 1 Sam. 28.15. I am ſore diſtreſſed: for the Philiſtines are upon me, and God is departed from me, &c.