Lamentations 1:2

weepeth sore. Note Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). The Hebrew. a weeping she weepeth. Thus well rendered. See note on Genesis 26:28. and note the Figure of speech Prosopopoeia (App-6).

lovers: i.e. allies, whom she had preferred to Jehovah. See Jeremiah 2:17; Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 2:36; Jeremiah 2:37; Jeremiah 4:30; Jeremiah 22:22.Ezekiel 23. and Lam 29:6, Lam 29:7, Lam 29:16.

enemies. Especially the Edomites and Ammonites. Compare Jeremiah 12:14.