From him - From it, from this Egypt, which though feminine as a land, yet as a people may be used as masculine . Now that Nineveh is trembli…

From him. —Better, from it, that is, from Egypt as a people.

Your hands upon your head. —The outw…

For the LORD has rejected your confidences, and you shall not prosper in them.

May God, in his mercy, save all of us from false con…

He expresses more clearly what he had said about the shameful character of his own nation—that the Jews, who thought their safety would be secured …

Yea, you shall go forth from him
From the Egyptian, without any help, and with shame; or, "from this" ^F21…

The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…