A voice of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled - This echoes from Jeremiah before the captivity: Howl, you shepherd…

Here, as in Zechariah 9:1-8, we have an intimation of an invasion of the land of Israel from the north; only, whereas in the former case Philistia,…

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all …

This Chapter contains severe threats, by which God intended to warn the Jews in due time. His purpose was that if there was any hope of repentance,…

[There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds
Which may be understood either of the civil rulers among the Jews…

In figurative expressions, that destruction of Jerusalem, and of the Jewish church and nation, is foretold, which our Lord Jesus, when the time was…