Lamentations 4:15

They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean. "They" - i:e., "men" (), even the very Gentiles, regarded as unclean by the Jews, who were ordered most religiously to avoid all defilements, cried unto the latter, "depart," as being "unclean;" so universal was the defilement of the city by blood.

They ... wandered - as the false prophets and their followers had "wandered, blind" with infatuated and idolatrous crime, in the city (), so they must now 'wander' among the pagan with blind consternation with calamity. They said among the heathen - i:e., the Gentiles said, among the pagan, 'The Jews shall no more sojourn in their own land' (Grotius); or, wheresoever they go in their wandering exile, 'they shall not stay long' (Ludovicus de Dieu). (.)

[Pe (p)] `Ayin and Pe are here transposed, as in Lamentations 2:16; .