Lamentations 1:9

Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself].

Ver. 9. Her filthiness is in her skirts.] Taxat impudentiam insignem. a She rather glorieth in her wickedness, than is any whit abashed of it - a metaphor from a menstruous woman that is immodest. Oh quam Vulgatee hoc hodie malum. Oh how comon this present time of evil. See Isaiah 3:9. But whence this gracelessness

She remembereth not her last end,] i.e., What a black tail of plagues sin draweth after it, and that for all these things she must come to judgment. Memorare novissima is a good preservative from sin; but most men are of Otho the emperor's mind, who thought it a piece of dastardy to speak or think much of death; b whereas Moses assureth us that by keeping out the thoughts of death, we keep our spirits void of true magnanimity, and that one of those that will consider their latter end would chase a thousand. Deu 32:30

Therefore she came down wonderfully.] Heb., With wonderments. Her incogitancy and inconsiderateness, together with the licentious wickedness following thereupon, being more heavy than a talent of lead, Zec 5:7 brought her down with a powder, as we say, ita ut ad miraculum corruerit.

O Lord, behold mine affliction.] If not me, as utterly unworthy, yet mine affliction, as thou once didst Hagar's; Gen 16:13 and if I may obtain no favour, yet why should the enemy insult to thy dishonour Deu 32:27 Psalms 35:26 ; Psa 38:16 Jeremiah 48:26 ; Jeremiah 48:42 Zep 2:10

a Paschasius.

b Plura de extremis loqui pars ignaviae est. - Tacit., lib. ii, Hist.