“Verse 2 considers the people's affliction. First, in general, second by going down to particular persons. As expressed in Verse 11: "Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah." As to the people's affliction in general are two ideas. First is excluded those things by which people are sustained against m…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
— Lamentations 5:2 —
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.