The earth mourns – The land through which he has pa ed. For the sense of this phrase, see the note at Isaiah 24:4.

Lebanon is asha…

The earth mourneth ... — Lebanon, with its cedars, the Sharon (as we say, the Campagna), Bashan, with its oaks (…

The earth has mourned and languished. Here he describes more fully how wretched and desperate the Jews would perceive their condition to b…

The earth mourneth [and] languisheth

Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own c…

1. Woe to you who plunder. In this part, the prophet begins to foretell the destruction of Israel’s enemies. This is presented in t…