Lamentations 1:9

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. Her filthiness is in her skirts - continuation of the image in . Her ignominy and misery cannot be concealed, but are apparent to all, as if a woman were surfing under such a flow as to reach the end of her skirts. She remembereth not her last end - (; ). She forgot how fatal must be the end of her iniquity. Or, as the words following imply, she, in despair, cannot lift herself up to lay hold of God's promises as at her 'latter end' (Calvin). Wonderfully - Hebrew, wonders - i:e., with amazing dejection. O Lord, behold my affliction. Judah here breaks in, speaking for herself. For the enemy hath magnified himself. What might seem ground for despair, the elated insulting of the enemy, is rather ground for good hope.

[Yodh (y)]