To ask how you are doing? —This is a fair paraphrase of the original, but it lacks the Eastern character of the more literal t…

The Prophet shows here that the severe punishment he had spoken of could not be considered unjust, as those complaining men thought, who continuall…

For who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem ?
&c.] The inhabitants of it; their sins being so many, and so heinous…

The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The posing of this as a hypothetical situation, even if they were to stand …

Here, the prophet gives the reason for their rejection.