The Lord shall roar from on high— The metaphor in the first part of the verse is taken from a lion roaring over his prey, (see Jeremiah 25:38.) and in the latter from the triumphant shouts of the treaders of the grapes. The meaning is, that he should pronounce and execute a terrible judgment upon the temple, the place that he had chosen for his habitation.

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