Zion spreadeth forth her hands
Either as submitting to the conqueror, and imploring mercy; or rather as calling to her friends to help and relieve her. The Targum is,
``Zion spreadeth out her hands through distress, as a woman spreads out her hands upon the seat to bring forth;''see ( Jeremiah 4:31 ) . Some render the words, "Zion breaks with her hands" F6; that is, breaks bread; and Joseph Kimchi observes, that it was the custom of comforters to break bread to the mourner; but here she herself breaks it with her hands, because there was none to comfort her: [and there is] none to comfort her;
``the Lord gave to the house of Jacob commandments, and a law to keep, but they transgressed the decree of his word; therefore his enemies encompassed the house of Jacob round about:''Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them;
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