John Trapp on Lamentations 2:12

Ver. 12. They ſay to their mothers] Lege & luge. Tu quibus iſta leges incertum eſt, Lector, ocellis: Ipſe quidem ſiccis ſcribere vix potui. As oft as I read the Lamentations of Jeremy (ſaith Gregory Nazianzen) my voice faileth me,Orat. 1. pacificat. and I am overwhelmed with teares: the miſery of that poor people cometh under my view as it were; and my heart is therewith very much affected, and afflicted.

Where is corn and wine] Frumentum dicunt non panem: Corn they would have been glad of, though unground ſaith one: Wine they ask for and not water, which noteth an ill cuſtome in their mothers to drink wine, and to give it their little ones: but by corn and wine here may be meant neceſſary food, to keep them alive.

When their ſoul was poured out into the mothers boſom] As it were giving them their lives again, ſeeing they yeelded them no food to preſerve them alive.