Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
(143) The same word, נדה occurs in Lamentations 1:8, only there is a י in it; and the phrase in its form is similar. The Versions, except the, Syr. , and also the Targ. , give to it there the idea of wandering, but here of uncleanness. There seems to be no reason for this change; and the end of the next verse favors the idea of wandering: Jerusalem had become a wanderer, or a fugitive, among her oppressors, — 