Fire is gone out - Compare the marginal reference. Zedekiah is regarded, like Abimelech, as a complete usurper and the ruin of his people.…

Fire is gone out of a rod of her branches.— The rods, as shown in Ezekiel 19:11, are the royal sceptres of her kings. It …

Here the Prophet reaches the end of their afflictions, when Zedekiah was dragged into captivity, and so the people’s independence was abolished. Go…

And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches
By "her branches" are meant the rest of the Jews left in the land; and…

Jerusalem was a vine, flourishing and fruitful. This vine is now destroyed, though not plucked up by the roots. She has by wickedness made herself …