The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in
the
midst of me
As a causeway is trodden; or as mire is trodden under foot in the
streets; so were the mighty and valiant men, the soldiers and men
of war, trodden under foot and destroyed by the Chaldeans in the
streets of Jerusalem, and in the midst of Judea; the Lord so
permitting it: he hath called an assembly against me to
crush my young men;
the army of the Chaldeans, which were brought against Jerusalem
by a divine appointment and call; against whom the choicest and
stoutest of them, even their young men, could not stand; but were
crushed and broken to pieces by them. The word for "assembly"
sometimes signifies an appointed time; a time fixed for solemn
festivals, and for calling the people to them; and so the Targum
here,
``he hath called or appointed a time to break the strength of my young men;''the time of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a