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<p class="tab-1">We have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her present deplorable condition is aggravated by comparing it with her former prosperous state; all along, sin is acknowledged and complained of as the procuring cause of all these miseries; and God is appealed to for justice against their enemies and applied to for compassion towards them. The chapter is all of a piece, and the several remonstrances are interwoven; but here is, I. A complaint made to God of their calamities, and his compassionate consideration desired, <a class="bibleref" title="Lam.1.1-Lam.1.11" href="/passage/?search=Lam.1.1-Lam.1.11">Lam. 1:1-11</a>. II. The same complaint made to their friends, and their compassionate consideration desired, <a class="bibleref" title="Lam.1.12-Lam.1.17" href="/passage/?search=Lam.1.12-Lam.1.17">Lam. 1:12-17</a>. III. An appeal to God and his righteousness concerning it (<a class="bibleref" title="Lam.1.18-Lam.1.22" href="/passage/?search=Lam.1.18-Lam.1.22">Lam. 1:18-22</a>), in which he is justified in their affliction and is humbly solicited to justify himself in their deliverance.</p>
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