Rashi, on Lam 1:3

“Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place because of her affliction, and the greatness of her bondage: she hath dwelt among the nations, and she hath found no rest: all her persecutors have taken her in the midst of straits.”

“Judah went into exile from her land. and great servitude with which the Chaldeans burdened her. she settled among the nations and in the place where she was exiled and settled she found no rest. between the boundaries where there is a high place on either side, and there is no place to flee. the boundaries Heb. הַמְצָרִים, the boundaries of fields and vineyards. The Midrash Aggadah (Lam. Rabbah 1:29) explains: between the seventeenth of Tammuz and the ninth of Av.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

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