Silence and desolation are to settle upon the whole land.

Then will I cause to cease ... the voice of mirth. — The special imagery of the picture of desolation is characteristic o…

He still continues the same subject; for he pronounces upon the Jews the punishment which they had deserved. He more fully expresses what he mentio…

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem. Signifying that the devastation s…

As a token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.

The heart is t…

Here, he threatens them with punishment.

1. He prefigures it with a sign: cut off your hair. As in Ezekiel 5:2, you shal…