What do you mean - What is your object? Or, What advantage is it to you? Or, By what right or pretense do you do this?

Beat my peo…

What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces? The Prophet also mentions other particulars, from which it is evident that they ruled …

What mean you, [that] you beat my people to pieces
Reduce them to the utmost poverty; so the Targum, "wherefore do y…

The rule was certain; whatever national prosperity or trouble might exist, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be …

1. For Jerusalem is ruined. Here the author explains the reason for this renunciation.

   First, he presents the immediate caus…