Lam 2:20, 4:10 | JFB | STEP | 20. women eat . . . fruit —as threatened ( ). children . . . span long —or else, "children whom they carry in their arms" [MAURER ]. Schin.

Lamentations 2:20

20. women eat . . . fruit—as threatened (Le 26:29; De 28:53, 56, 57; Jer 19:9).

children . . . span long—or else, "children whom they carry in their arms" [MAURER].

Schin.

pitiful—naturally at other times compassionate (Isa 49:15). JOSEPHUS describes the unnatural act as it took place in the siege under Titus.

sodden—boiled.

Caph.