He that dasheth in pieces - Rather, “the Disperser,” the instrument of God, by which he would “break her in pieces like a potter’s vessel, o…

Keep the munition. —Better, guard the fortress. These four sententious directions to Nineveh are, of course, iro…

The waster spoken of here by the Prophet, some consider him to have been Sennacherib, and others, Nebuchadnezzar. The verb עלה, ole, is al…

He that dasheth in pieces is come up before your face O Nineveh, or land of A yria; for this is not to be understood of S…

Nineveh shall not avert this judgment; there is no counsel or strength against the Lord. God looks upon proud cities, and brings them down. A parti…