He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree – This describes an extremity of desolation.

The locusts at first attack a…

My vine. —This expression might well captivate the Jewish ear. God appropriates to Himself this land on which the trouble was, by …

I repeat, I do not approve of what some think, that punishment not yet inflicted is proclaimed here against the people. On the contrary, in my view…

He has laid my vine waste
That is, the locust, which spoiled the vines in Judea, the singular being put for the plur…

The oldest people could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat its fruits. Th…