Cut themselves ... make themselves bald - Both these practices were strictly forbidden in the Law (marginal references) probably as being pa…

Nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald. — Both practices were forbidden by the Law ([Reference Lev…

He pursues the same subject: he says that all would die indiscriminately, the common people as well as the chief men, and that none would be exempt…

Both the great and the small shall die in this land. The nobles as well as the common people, high and low, rich and poor…

The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his country ruined very shortly. Anticipating sad times, he is to abstain from marriage…

1. Here, the Lord forbids the prophet from associating with the condemned people.

First, He gives the sentence, and second, He gives …