Rather, Surely I have filled you with men as with locusts, and they shall sing over you the vintage-song. The vintage-shout suggests the i…

The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself.— This is, as in Jeremiah 49:13, Amos 6:8, the most solemn form of affi…

The Prophet more fully confirms what he had said by introducing God as making an oath; and it is the most solemn manner of confirmation when God sw…

The Lord has sworn by himself, [saying] Or, "by his soul" or "life" ^F17 ; which is himself, than which he cann…

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…