20. — Shall the women eat their fruit, &c.] We find by comparing this verse with chap. iv. 10, that God brought upon them that terrible judgment, which He had denounced against them, if they continued to provoke Him; namely, that they should "eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters," Lev. xxvi. 29; Deut. xxviii. 53; Jer. xix. 9. W. Lowth. Before CHRIST about 588. c Lev. 26. 16. Deut. 28. 15. f Jer. 14. 17. ch. 1. 16. evaddled with their hands? The faithful bewail their calamities. LAMENTATIONS. God's mercies a proper Before CHRIST about 588. of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. 27. — that he bear the yoke in his youth.] It is good to be inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which arise from a sense of the duty we owe to God, and the obedience we ought to pay to his laws. W. Lowth.