Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. COME DOWN, AND SIT IN THE DUST - (note, ; ; .) O VIRGIN - i:e., heretofore uncaptured (Herodotus, 1: 191). D... [ Continue Reading ]
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. TAKE THE MILLSTONES - like the querns or hand-mills found in this country before the invention of water-mills and wind-mills; a convex stone, made by the hand to turn in a concave... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. I WILL NOT MEET (THEE AS) A MAN - whose compassion thou mightest move, or whose might thou couldest resist, but as God, whose justice thou hast arrayed against thee, and whose... [ Continue Reading ]
As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. (AS FOR) OUR REDEEMER - or supply, 'Thus saith our Redeemer' (Maurer). Lowth supposes this verse to be the exclamation of a chorus breaking in with praises, 'Our Redeemer! Yahweh of hosts,' etc. ().... [ Continue Reading ]
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. SIT THOU SILENT - the posture of mourning (; ; ). SIT THOU SILENT - the posture of mourning (; ; ). GET THEE INTO DARKNESS - mourning and misery (; ). LADY OF KING... [ Continue Reading ]
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE; I HAVE ... GIVEN THEM INTO THINE HAND: THOU DIDST SHOW THEM NO MERCY - reason for God's... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. THOU SAIDST, I SHALL BE A LADY FOREVER: (SO) THAT THOU DIDST NOT LAY THESE (THINGS) TO THY HEART. Through thy vain expectation of being a queen forever,... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: HEAR NOW THIS, THOU (THAT ART) GIVEN TO PLEASURES - (note, .) In no city were the... [ Continue Reading ]
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. BUT THESE TWO (THINGS) SHALL COME TO THEE IN A MOMENT IN ONE D... [ Continue Reading ]
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. FOR THOU HAST TRUSTED IN THY WICKEDNESS - referring, as in , to the cruelty with which Babylon treated i... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. THEREFORE SHALL EVIL COME UPON THEE; THOU SHALT NOT KNOW FROM WHENCE IT... [ Continue Reading ]
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. (STAND - forth. NOW WITH THINE ENCHANTMENTS - a scornful challenge to Babylon's magicians to show whether... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. (THOU ART WEARIED - (Isaiah 57:10; Exodus 24:12.) ASTROLOGERS (Kethibh, hobªreew; Qeri', hobªreey (H1895)... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. THEY SHALL BE AS STUBBLE; THE FIRE SHALL BURN THEM - (; .) (THERE SHALL) NOT (BE) A COAL TO WARM AT. Like... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. THUS SHALL THEY BE UNTO THEE WITH WHOM THOU HAST LABOURED - Such shall be the fate of those astrologers who cost thee such an amount of tr... [ Continue Reading ]