Commentaire de citation sur Les Lamentations 1:14

לְ֭מַכֵּה מְלָכִ֣ים גְּדֹלִ֑ים “Who struck down great kings.,” (Ps. 136:17) refers to the generation of Serug. It was at that time that the nations began to fight with one another - that is why he was called Serug, like the verse, “Imposed upon my neck,” (Lam. 1:14) This is an expression of confusion.

Encumbered with millstones. When the enemies led them away in neck irons, they would place on their shoulders millstones and burdens in order to tire them.¹⁰Alternatively, ‘youths were forced to grind wheat,’ a task which drains their strength. (Ibn Ezra) And similarly, “[and boys] staggered with beams,” [meaning that] their strength failed. The expression of staggering כִּשְׁלוֹן applies to the weakening of strength, as is stated in Ezra, “And Yehudah said, ‘the strength of the bearer has failed,’”¹¹Nechemyah 4:4. and similarly, “He has caused my strength to fail.”¹²Eichah 1:14.

are knit together Heb. ישרגו, twisted cords, like (Lam. 1:14), “they are knit together (ישתרגו),” or the webbing (שריגי) of a bed in the language of the Mishnah, (Moed Katan 1:8), and it is an expression of twisted cords.