12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-12)The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold , as the most fine gold , so rich and splendid, the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth , has become dim, and is changed, has lost its lustre, lost its value, is not what it was; it has become dross. Alas! what a...
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