The general meaning is clear, but the exact force of the metaphor used is not so obvious. If the “line” and the “plummet” are “symbols of rule” or …

And I will stretch over Jerusalem... —Compare to Amos 7:7-9; Isaiah 34:11; Lamentations 2:8. The se…

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria
The Targum is, the line of destruction; and the sense is, that the same …

Here is the doom of Judah and Jerusalem. The words used represent the city emptied and utterly desolate. Yet it was not destroyed by this; instead,…