George Leo Haydock, on Lam 1:8

“Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable: all that honoured her have despised her, because they have seen her shame: but she sighed and turned backward.”

“Unstable. Hebrew also, “removed,” (Haydock) like a woman unclean. (Calmet) — Such were excluded from places of prayer, and were not allowed to touch a sacred book, or to pronounce God’s name. Their husbands could not look at their face, nor give them any thing, but laid it down for them to take. (Buxtorf, Syn. 31.) — No condition could be more distressing. (Calmet)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.