Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her latter end; therefore she came down awesomely: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.
All Commentaries on Lamentations 1:9 Go To Lamentations 1
Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
Then: "she took no thought of her doom as to her death, or the divine judgment. As the Book of Sirach 7:36 admonishes: "In all you do, remember the end of your life, and then you will never sin."
Secondly, is considered the penalty for sinning. As stated: "therefore her fall is terrible". That is, from a dignified status into an extreme misery. As Psalm 59(58):ll declares: "make them totter by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!"
Thirdly, divine mercy is displayed. As Verse 9 finally says: "O Lord, behold my affliction for the enemy has triumphed!" And, as Psalm ll9(ll8):l53 declares: "Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law".
