All social orders and ranks of people in the state would be broken in indiscriminate destruction.

One against another. —The rendering answers to the Hebrew idiom, but that idiom, as in the margin, a man against his brother,<…

The Prophet denounces here by another analogy the vengeance of God, for he says that all would be filled with drunkenness: but he is comma…

And I will dash them one against another As drunken men fall foul on one another, and quarrel and fight; or in allusion t…

As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the people's sins made them vessels of wrath, fitted for God's judgments, with which they would be fi…

Here, he gives the application of the allegory, and on this topic, he makes two points.