her gates] Her cities being ruined, shall afford a lamentable spectacle, Jeremiah 14:1. Lamentations 1:4. gates for cities, Exodus 20:10. Deuteronomy 31:12.
she being] The land, or the mother-citie Jerusalem, being left without inhabitants, Lamentations 1:1.
desolate,] Or, emptied.
desolate,] Heb. cleansed. or, destroyed. as Zechariah 5:3.
sit upon] As the manner is of mourners. Ez. 9. 3. Job 2:8; Job 2:13. Chap. 47. 1.