Whoever hears of it. —Literally, his hearers. Many manuscripts. And the Hebrew margin read her (i.e., its) h…

Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel
Who, though kind and gracious to Israel as their covenant God, is yet jus…

Here is the doom of Judah and Jerusalem. The words used represent the city emptied and utterly desolate. Yet it was not destroyed by this; instead,…