Lamentations 2:9

Her gates, etc.] The Targ. preserves a tradition that the enemy slew a pig and sprinkled the blood over them.

destroyed and broken One of the verbs must be struck out for the sake of metre.

Her king … from the Lord We should (correcting the Mass. punctuation) read the latter part of the second line as an independent clause, "the law is not." Three classes are spoken of, all of whom circumstances exclude from their proper functions, (i) the king and princes are in exile, (ii) so are the priests, (iii) the prophets in captivity have no message. Cp. Psalms 74:9; Ezekiel 7:26 f. We must therefore (correcting the Mass. punctuation) read the latter part of the second line, there is no priestly direction. See on Jeremiah 18:18.