Lamentations 1:17

¹⁷ Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] round about him; Jerusalem is as an impurity among them.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 119

119. Internal Meaning of Lamentations (11)

Chapter 1 (1)

1-3 The church and its doctrine from the Word, which had been dominant, but now enslaved and laid waste. (3)

4-5 All of its truths and goods are perverted. (3, 16)

6 There is no power against the hells. (3)

7-11 All things of the church have been devastated, and hence it is in evils and falsities. (3)

12-16 Its grief on account of the devastation. (3)

17-22 There is no help from heaven. (3)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.