Your sons — Jerusalem is here represented as a mother. Her sons, that is, her inhabitants, had become weak and prostrate everywhere, and wer…

As a wild bull ... —Better, as an antelope. The picture explains the one in Isaiah 51:17. The sons cannot help the mother…

Your sons have fainted. He describes more fully the lamentable and wretched condition of the Church when he says that her children are pro…

Your sons have fainted Through want of food, or at the desolation made, and have no spirit in them to appear in the inter…

God calls upon his people to be mindful of the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the…

1. Give ear to me, you that follow justice. Here he addre es the second obstacle to their liberation, which might be a umed from th…