Shall not they rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you? - The destruction of the wicked is always sudden at last.…

The destruction of the Chaldeans has until now been only implied. It is now plainly foretold in a denunciatory song, put into the mouths of the inv…

So it happened to Chaldea that the nations, which they had spoiled, eventually grew strong enough to take vengeance upon them, and to spoil them in…

The Prophet continues with the subject we have already begun to explain, for he introduces here the common taunts against the king of Babylon and t…

Shall not they rise up suddenly that shall bite you
Or, "your usurers", or "your creditors" ^F4 , as some …

The prophet proclaims the doom of all proud and oppre ive powers that weigh heavily upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye,…