Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

From the right path. A man who falls, immediately endeavors to rise, and a man who has misseif the road, hastens to return to the right path ; but the people cared not to rise, or to return.

P. " When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is ftint in me." M The Israelites in exile are astonished, on hearing that Jerusalem was given over to enemies. They ask : is not God there ? is He not her king and protector?

The prophet expresses his astonishment, that no remedy has beeu found for the evils which afflict the people. St Jerome observes that balm is an image of penance.