Her walls - It is possible that not the city walls, but those of a vineyard are meant. Judea is God’s vineyard (Isaiah 5:1–7), a…

Walls. — A better translation is her palm-trees. The Hebrew word is found in Ezekiel 27:25 (though not in the English Ver…

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel …

Here God, through His prophet, addresses the enemies of His people, whom He had appointed to be the agents of His vengeance. This was usual with th…

Go you up upon her walls, and destroy These are the words of the prophet, or of the Lord by the prophet, to the Chaldeans…

Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not w…

1. Here, he discu es their sins specifically: