How do the beasts groan! - There is something very pitiable in the cry of the animal creation, even because they are innocent, yet …

How do the beasts groan.— All creation is represented as sharing in the dread perplexity; the beasts are involved in it, …

The Prophet amplifies his reproof, that even oxen as well as other animals felt the judgment of God. There is then here an implied comparison betwe…

How do the beasts groan ? &c.] For want of fodder, all green grass and herbs being eaten up by the locusts; or devoured, …

The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confe ed and lam…