Hissing - Not derision, but the drawing in of the breath quickly, as people do when they shudder.

Way his head - Or, “shake hi…

Desolate ... astonished. —A better translation is desolate in both clauses. The Hebrew verb is the same, and there is a m…

The Prophet again denounces the punishment they deserved: that desolation awaited the land. He says it would be their reward to have the land reduc…

To make their land desolate
Not that this was the intention either of those that led them out of the right way into …

Sinners call it liberty to live without restraint, but for a person to be a slave to their lusts is the very worst slavery. They abandoned God for …

1. Here, he speaks of the despair of those who rejected his preaching.

   • First, he mentions their desperation: we have no…