Your wickedness - This siege is your wickedness, that is, in its results; or better, this is your wretchedness, this army and your approachi…

This is your wickedness. —Better, this is your evil. She was reaping the fruit of her own doing, and this gave her sorrow…

How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from Mount Ephraim. Make mention to…

As I have just said, the Prophet confirms what he had declared—that the Jews would not have to suffer what is commonly called an adverse fortune, b…

Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you ,
&c.] The way in which they walked, which was an evil …

The fierce conqueror of the neighboring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by fal…

Here, he predicts the siege: