They are upright ... - Rather, “They are like a palm tree of turned work,” that is, like one of those stiff, inelegant pillars, something li…

Upright as the palm tree.

Perhaps a better translation is, A pillar in a garden of gourds are they.

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must necessarily be borne, because they cannot go.

Pretty gods they must be! …

He continues with the same subject and borrows his words from the forty-fourth chapter of Isaiah (Isaiah 44); for the passage is wholly…

They are upright as the palm tree Being nailed to a post, or fastened to a pillar, or set upon a pedestal, and so stand e…

The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the foolishness of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to…

Here, he shows the dignity of the people, so that from this their guilt might appear more serious and their punishment more just.

It is divi…