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.
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Interlinear Gloss
AD 1480
Teth- ‘good’, whence: BEHOLD, O LORD, MY AFFLICTION &c; for it is good for the sinner to know himself and exclaim with penitence and sighs: BEHOLD, O LORD
her feet- teachers, by whom she should have been carried, or desires.
her end- Christ or the future judgement or the captivity.
cast down- from the throne of the kingdom.
a comforter- the Holy Spirit.
behold O Lord- the captive’s own voice; that you may show pity.
my affliction- not my iniquity.
the enemy- being haughty against you.