The former verse denounced the future desolation in general terms. This verse specifieth what desolation in particular God would bring upon the land. I will consume man and beast; man shall be consumed for his own sin, and the beasts consumed for man's sake; men by the pestilence and famine, the beasts by murrain, and devoured by multitudes of hungry soldiers, that shall make greater havoc than any murrain ordinarily doth. The fowls of the heaven; either by some unknown disease among them, or else by a distaste at the stench of putrefying carcasses, they fled away, so that none, or very few, appeared, insomuch that it looked as if all were consumed. The fishes of the sea: by sea, some understand ponds, lakes, or smaller seas, such as that of Gennesareth and Tiberias, the waters whereof might be made noisome to the fish by the streams of blood and carcasses which might possibly be east into them; or God might destroy the fishes by some consuming disease too. He hath ways to do it, who hath once said he will do it. The stumbling-blocks; the idols. The wicked; the idolatrous priests, and others who worshipped them. I will cut off man, all shall disappear, from off the land of Judah.

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