How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

How is the city of praise not left. The prophet, in the person of a citizen of Damascus deploring its calamity, calls it "the city of praise" - i:e., celebrated with praises everywhere for its beauty (). 'How is it possible that such a city has not been left whole-has not been spared by the foe?' (Compare "left," Luke 17:35). So Israel left standing still on their site some of the Canaanite cities, (, margin)

The city of my joy - i:e., in which I delighted. Contrast with the Damascenes' former joy in their city, which was doomed to ruin, God's joy forever in His people and in Zion His city (, "It shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and an honour before all the nations of the earth."

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