the foundations R.V. renders rightly raisin-cakes. These cakes of compressed grapes are mentioned less as an article of commerce than as a delicacy used at religious feasts (cf. Hosea 3:1, R.V.). The word never means "foundations." The parallel passage in Jeremiah substitutes the tamer "men." Kir-haresethis the same as Kir-heres (Isaiah 16:11) and perhaps identical with Kir of Moab (Isaiah 15:1).

surelythey are stricken Better, as R.V.: utterly stricken (apposition to "ye").

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