Before their face the people shall be much pained - The locust being such a scourge of God, people have good reason to be terrified…

All faces shall gather blackness.— There are different explanations of this Hebrew phrase, which expresses the result of …

This chapter contains serious exhortations, mixed with threatenings; but the Prophet threatens for the purpose of correcting the indifference of th…

Before their face the people shall be much pained
Or, "at their presence"; at the sight of them they shall be in pai…

The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of s…