My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
"They are mine enemies without cause"  (Lamentations 3:52).  Ash and other scholars refer to these words as "a puzzle ... because they do not square with previous confessions of sin."[37]  The explanation is simple enough. The particular enemies here were those of Jeremiah's own people, who were indeed his enemies `without cause.' Jeremiah had prophesied for them that they should remain in Jerusalem; but they hated him, refused to obey, and in all probability forced him to flee with them into Egypt.  (We have written a full account of those events in Vol. II (Jeremiah) of my series of commentaries on the major prophets, pp. 454-458.)  Here again, we find that the acceptance of Jeremiah as the author of Lamentations answers all the questions that arise.