They ... - Each word indicates the completeness of Judah’s ruin.

Turn back your hand - Addressed perhaps to Nebuchadnezzar …

Turn back thine hand. —The image of the grape-gatherer carrying on his work to the last grape or tendril was a natural parable of …

God here confirms the former statement, as if he had said that he dreaded a sight so sad and mournful, which the Jews nonetheless disregarded. He t…

Thus says the Lord of hosts. Finding that all his threatenings, admonitions, and expostulations, were in vain, he says of…

When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. Their hearts were set on the world, and they were w…

Here, the prophet shows the coming destruction, concerning which he makes three points.

1. He speaks of the warning to avoid destruction.…