king shall mourn 2 Samuel 19. The "prince" is Ezekiel's usual term for the chief civil ruler, and princes for those of the royal house. The clause "the king shall mourn" is wanting in LXX. On "clothed with desolation," i.e. utterly appalled, cf. Ezekiel 7:18; Ezekiel 26:16.

according to their deserts lit. judgments, i.e. practices and deeds, as ch. Ezekiel 5:7; Ezekiel 11:12 (manners). All that should defend and save the state, from the king to the people of the land, shall be paralysed and helpless. The Lord will judge them according to their doings and they shall know that he is Jehovah.

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