A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king.

(Lamentations 4:17) Rather, Still do our eyes wast…

Our persecutors. —Better, Our pursuers, the words referring to the Chaldean enemies rather than to persecutors in the mod…

Here, then, the Prophet means that the Jews were so confined that there was no escape for them, because their steps were observed by their enemies,…

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heavens , &c.] That fly in the heavens; and which, as they have a quic…

Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Div…

Third, he excludes the remedy of flight. Here he touches upon the history that is told in Jeremiah 52, when the Chaldeans surrounded Zedekiah fleei…