go up and down] Heb. go and go down. bewail my virginity] Whereby I shall be deprived of posterity, which in those dayes was accounted some dishonour, even as fruitfulnesse was much esteemed. See Genesis 30:23. 1 Samuel 1:6. Luke 1:25. And here note, that she speaketh not of bewailing her approaching death, or being sacrificed; but her virginity onely upon the former reason.