All ye people] RV 'ye peoples, all of you.' His holy temple] i.e. heaven, as in Habakkuk 2:20; Isaiah 63:15. Israel's ruin is to be an object-lesson to the nations.

4. God's judgments in figures taken from earthquake, storm, and lightning.

5. The first Jacob must mean the whole nation, the second the ten tribes. High places of Judah] LXX and Syr. read, 'sin of the house of Judah.' The capitals, Samaria and Jerusalem, were the centres of moral and religious corruption.

6, 7. The verbs should be read as presents, 'I am making,' etc.

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