Every one ... - Or, Their bows are broken, for Yahweh is a God of recompenses; He will certainly requite.

The Lord God of recompences ... —The prophet clothes the law of retribution which he has been asserting throughout the ch…

He confirms the previous verse; for as what he was speaking about was difficult to believe, he presents God to them and shows that God would be the…

Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon Babylon , &c.] That is, Cyrus, with his army:

and he…

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