It is for the sword That they may be cut off by the sword, either of war or of justice: and his offspring, &c. Shall be starved, or shall want necessaries. Those that remain of him Who survive that sword and famine; shall be buried in death “Shall be reduced to so great a degree of misery,” says Schultens, “that where they die, there they shall rot, and no person shall bury them: they shall have death itself, (so he renders the text,) for their sepulchre.” It is put in antithesis, or by way of contrast to the monuments of the rich. And his widows For they had many wives; shall not weep Because they, as well as other persons, groaned under his tyranny, and, therefore, rejoice in their deliverance from it.

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