Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. The dead bodies of thy servants ] It appears that in the destruction of Jerusalem the Chaldeans did not bury the bodies of the slain, but left them to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey. This was the grossest inhumanity.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defil it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Thos who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrat as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.
Original Hebrew נתנו5414 את853 נבלת5038 עבדיך5650 מאכל3978 לעוף5775 השׁמים8064 בשׂר1320 חסידיך2623 לחיתו2416 ארץ׃776
