I shook my lap - Compare the marginal references. The term “lap” refers to a fold in the garment at the chest, which could be used as a pock…

Shook my lap. — This symbolic act invoked on every man who broke this covenant an appropriate penalty: that he be emptied…

Also I shook my lap
The fore skirts of his garment, shaking the dust out of them, as a symbol of what follows; a lik…

Nehemiah knew that if he built Jerusalem's walls ever so high, so thick, or so strong, the city could not be safe while there were abuses. The righ…