Pour out ... sword – literally, "pour them out upon the hands of the sword," i.e., give them up to the sword.

Put to death – R…

Therefore deliver up their children ... —The bitter words that follow startle and pain us, like the imprecations of Psalms 35,[Ref…

The Prophet seems here to have been driven by indignation to utter imprecations that are not consistent with a right feeling. For even if Christ ha…

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine To be starved, and perish by it, as they were in the siege of Jerusalem…

When the prophet called to repentance, instead of obeying the call, the people devised devices against him. Thus sinners deal with the great Interc…

1. Here their obstinacy is shown by the fact that they would persecute their preachers, which was a figure of the persecution of Christ.

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