The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 2:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Clap … hiss … wag their heads. Gestures of malicious joy (Job 27:23) or contempt (Jeremiah 19:8; Psalms 22:7). The perfection of beauty; literally, the perfect in beauty. The same phrase is used in Ezekiel (Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 28:12) of Tyre, and a similar one in Psalms 1:2 of Zion.

Lamentations 2:16, Lamentations 2:17

On the transposition of the initial letters in these verses, see Introduction.

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