For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
my children are desolate: those which should help and relieve her, and be a comfort to her, were destitute themselves: or, were "destroyed" e, and were not; and which was the cause of her disconsolate state, as was Rachel's, Jeremiah 31:15;