_Petra. Hebrew selah, "the rock." (Haydock) --- Our Saviour spring from Ruth, the Moabitess. (Menochius) --- The original may insinuate, that the king of the country had neglected to pay the usual tribute to Juda, 4 Kings iii. 4. (Calmet) --- "Send the lamb to the ruler," &c. (Tournemine.) Amid scen... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arnon. They shall not be able to fly over, or to escape the conqueror._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Night. Seek a retreat in the darkest places; or protect Israel when they shall flee before the Assyrians. Their cruelty is thus insinuated, Amos i._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dust. Theglathphalassar. I need not exhort you to receive my people, as I know your dispositions, and they are out of danger. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Just. This regards Christ, (St. Jerome) prefigured by (Haydock) Ezechias. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Walls. Hebrew, "Kir-hareseth," chap. xv. 1. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lords. Princes of Jerusalem, (Lamentations i. 1.) or of Assyria. (Calmet) --- Sea. Of Sodom, even as far as Jazer, (Haydock) in the tribe of Ruben. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XVI. _ My tears. Chap. xv. 5. (Haydock) --- I announce a different sort of music from that which is customary in times of harvest, and of vintage. The liquor shall be tears, chap. lxiii. 2., and Jeremias xlviii. 32, 33. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Carmel. This name is often taken to signify a fair and fruitful hill or field, such as Mount Carmel is. (Challoner) --- It means, "the vine of God." (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wall. Kir-hareseth, ver. 7. I am grieved at your misfortunes. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prevail. Chamos shall not be able to help them._... [ Continue Reading ]
_That time. A long while ago, Psalm xcii. 2._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Not many. It was laid waste in the third year of Ezechias. But its final destruction took place only five years after that of Jerusalem. (Calmet) --- The wars against Moab continued three years, after which it was reduced to servitude. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]