The application to Israel, addressed as my threshing (i.e. threshed one) and my child of the threshing-floor forcible figurative epithets of Israel as a nation crushed and down-trodden by the brutal tyranny of Babylon (cf. ch. Isaiah 41:15; Micah 4:12 f.; Jeremiah 51:33, &c.).

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