He stood with his right hand ... - that is, that right hand so often stretched out to help now grasped a weapon ready for Judah’s d…

He stood with his right hand ... —The point of the phrase is that the “right hand,” the natural symbol of divine power, which had …

He now employs another metaphor: God, who was accustomed to defend His people, now took up arms against them. For, in stating a part for the whole,…

He has bent his bow like an enemy God sometimes appears as if he was an enemy to his people, when he is not, by his condu…

A sad representation is made here of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the focus seems mostly to be on the hand of the Lord in th…

Here the prophet weeps over the destruction of the things that were for the people's use.

First, he weeps over what relates to beauty.

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