When the boughs thereof are withered - This is a further description of the desolation that would come upon Babylon. The idea is that Baby…

When the boughs thereof are withered ... —The picture of the wasted city receives another touch. Shrubs cover its open sp…

When its harvest shall wither. Some think that the Prophet has in mind the metaphor of a vineyard, which he used at the beginning of the c…

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken
off
This city is compared to…

In the days of the gospel, the latter days, the gospel church shall be more firmly fixed than the Jewish church and shall spread further. May our s…

1. In that day. In this part, the author recalls God’s divine and fatherly correction. This correction comes first by foreign scour…