Lamentaciones 1:19

19 »Les supliqué ayuda a mis aliados,
pero me traicionaron.
Mis sacerdotes y mis líderes
murieron de hambre en la ciudad,
mientras buscaban comida
para salvar sus vidas.

Lamentaciones 1:19 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me
Either her idols, with whom she had committed spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry; but these could not answer her expectations, and help her: or the Egyptians, that courted her friendship, and with whom she was in alliance, and in whom she trusted; and these, in the times of her distress, she called upon to make good their engagements, but they disappointed her, and stood not to their covenant and promises, but left her to stand and fall by herself; this Jerusalem said, according to the Targum, when she was delivered into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar; but these words, "they deceived me", it makes to be the Romans, that came with Titus and Vespasian, and built bulwarks against Jerusalem: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city;
or died in the city of Jerusalem; not by the sword of the enemy, but through famine; and so, in the Arabic language, the word <arabic> ^F9 signifies to labour under famine, and want of food, and perish through it; and if this was the case of their priests that officiated in holy things, and of their elders or civil magistrates, what must be the case of the common people? while they sought their meat to relieve their souls;
or "fetch ^F11 [them] back"; which were just fainting and dying away through hunger; and who did expire while they were begging their bread, or inquiring in one place after another where they could get any, either freely or for money.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 <arabic> "esurivit et fame ac inedia laboravit", Golius, col. 556.
F11 (Mvpn ta wbyvyw) "et reducerent animam suam", Montanus.

Lamentaciones 1:19 In-Context

17 Jerusalén extiende la mano en busca de ayuda,
pero nadie la consuela.
El Señor
ha dicho
de su pueblo Israel:
«¡Que sus vecinos se conviertan en enemigos!
¡Que sean desechados como un trapo sucio!».

18 «El Señor
es justo —dijo Jerusalén—,
porque yo me rebelé contra él.
Escuchen, pueblos de todas partes;
miren mi angustia y mi desesperación,
porque mis hijos e hijas
fueron llevados cautivos a tierras lejanas.

19 »Les supliqué ayuda a mis aliados,
pero me traicionaron.
Mis sacerdotes y mis líderes
murieron de hambre en la ciudad,
mientras buscaban comida
para salvar sus vidas.

20 »¡S
, mira mi angustia!
Mi corazón está quebrantado
y mi alma desespera
porque me rebelé contra ti.
En las calles la espada mata,
y en casa solo hay muerte.

21 »Otros oyeron mis lamentos
pero nadie se volvió para consolarme.
Cuando mis enemigos se enteraron de mis tribulaciones
se pusieron felices al ver lo que habías hecho.
Oh, manda el día que prometiste,
cuando ellos sufrirán como he sufrido yo.