Jeremiah 15:8

against the mother of the young men mg. against the motherand the young menwho have fallen in battle. If we may accept an emendation of MT. by Du., we shall read mother and suckling.

at noonday i.e. at an unexpected time. Cp. Jeremiah 6:4 with note.

anguish The word occurs elsewhere only Hosea 9:9, where it is rendered by "the city," the ordinary sense of the Heb. word, but the reading of MT. there is suspected. Dr. (p. 361) suggests, but with hesitation, a root which would give the sense of excitement, or agitationof alarm.