Your pomp - Your magnificence (see the note at Isaiah 5:14).

The noise of your viols - Instruments of music were often used in…

Your pomp is brought down to the grave. Literally, to Sheol, as in Isaiah 14:9. The “pomp” is the same as the “beauty” of…

God hates pride with a perfect hatred. He drives his sword through the very heart of it, and cuts it in pieces. None can be great and mighty, and b…

Thy pomp is laid down in the grave. He mentions royal pomp so that this change may be more attentively considered by comparing the latter …

Your pomp is brought down to the grave Or "hell"; all the state and majesty in which he appeared, when sitting on the thr…

The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy…

409. Her time is near at hand. In this part, he promises liberation to the Jews through the destruction of Babylon, which he threatened abov…