Her filthiness. — The picture of pollution is pushed to its most loathsome extreme. The very skirts of the garment are defiled.

She remembereth not... — Better, she remembered not. It was her recklessness as to the future (comp. Deuteronomy 32:29, for the phrase) which brought her down to this “wonderful” and extreme prostration.

O Lord, behold my affliction. — The words are not those of the prophet, but of Zion, anticipating the dramatic personation which begins systematically at Lamentations 1:12.

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