Desolate - The force of the protest lies in this word. Three times the prophet uses it.

Lays it to heart - Rather, laid it “to…

They have made it desolate. —The Hebrew is impersonal. “One has made it ...,” i.e., it is made desol…

There is a change of number in the verb שם shem; but there is no obscurity: for the Prophet means that the Jews would be exposed to the ou…

They have made it desolate Which is repeated to denote the certainty of it; astonishment at it, and that it might be obse…

God's people had been the dearly beloved of His soul, precious in His sight, but they acted in such a way that He gave them up to their enemies. Ma…

1. Here, he threatens a particular punishment.

   1. First, he threatens the punishment of captivity.
   2. Second, he threatens t…