Lamentations 4

^{1 a} By the golde he meaneth the Princes, as by the stones he vnderstandeth the Priestes.

^{2 b} Which are of smale estimation & haue none honour.

^{2 /} Or, hid.

^{2 /} Or, sonnes.

^{3 c} Thogh the dragons be cruel, yet thei pitie their yong and nourish them, which thing Jerusalem doeth not.

^{3 d} The women forsake their children as the ostriche doeth her eggs, {Job. 39,17}.

^{6 /} Or, no strength was against her.

^{8 e} They that were before moste in Gods fauour, are now in greatest abomination vnto him, {Nomb. 6,2}.

^{9 f} For lacke of fode they pyne away, and consume.

^{13 g} He meaneth that these things are come to passe therefore, contrary to all mens expectation.

^{14 h} Some referre this to the blinde men, which as they went, stombled on the bood, whereof the citie was ful.

^{14 i} Meaning, the heathen which came to destroy them, colde not abyde them.

^{16 /} Or, face.

^{16 k} That is, the enemies.

^{17 l} He sheweth two principal causes of their destruction: their crueltie, & their vaine confidence in man: for they trusted in the helpe of the Egyptians.

^{20 m} Our King Josiah, in whome stode our hope of Gods fauour, and on home depended our state & life, was slayne whome he calleth anointed, because he was a figure of Christ.

^{21 n} This is spoken by derision.

^{21 /} Or, shew thy nakednes.

^{22 o} He comforteth the Churche by that after seuentie yeres their sorowes shal haue an end, where as the wicked shulde be tormented for euer.