The first half of the verse reads: He will roll thee up in a bundle ( and toss thee) like a ball into a spacious land (lit. "a land broad on both sides," as Genesis 34:21; Judges 18:10). The words "and toss thee" have to be supplied from the context; the construction is pregnant. The figure expresses banishment from Jehovah's territory, the "spacious land" referring probably to the Assyrian Empire.

there shall thou die(cf. Amos 7:17) and there shall be thy splendid chariots, thou shame of thy lord's house To ride forth with "chariots and horses" was once regarded as a sign of aspiring to the highest dignity (2 Samuel 15:1; 1 Kings 1:5); later it seems to have been the privilege of the princely caste (Jeremiah 17:25), peculiarly offensive, therefore, in a foreign adventurer. The concentrated bitterness of the last words points to something worse than political differences as the cause of Isaiah's antipathy to Shebna.

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