her palaces … his strong holds In "her" Jeremiah was thinking of the city, in "his" of the people at large; hence the change in the gender of the pronouns.

mourning and lamentation groaning and moaning, or better (as Cheyne) moaning and bemoaning. The original words are substantives from the same root, and occur again (there also in combination) only in Isaiah 29:2.

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