Thou art wearied - You have practiced so many arts, and practiced them so long, that you are exhausted in them. The ‘counsels’ here…

Let now the astrologers ... —The three words describe two aspects of the same art—

1. the dividers of the heavens…

You have wearied yourself. He now declares still more plainly what he had previously expressed in somewhat obscure language—namely, that a…

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Taken of astrologers, diviners, and soothsayers; who were never able t…

Let us beware of acting and speaking as Babylon did; of trusting in tyranny and oppression; of boasting about our abilities, relying on ourselves, …

1. Come down, and sit in the dust. Here the prophet foretells the degradation of the kingdom of Babylon. In this regard, he does th…