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But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
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The Ultimate Disgrace
Commentators unanimously agree that being denied a proper burial was a mark of supreme disgrace in the ancient world. The verse heaps on humiliating images—a useless, discarded branch; a blood-soaked, defiled garment; a trampled corpse—to show the total reversal of the king's former glory. This serves as a powerful illustration of the biblical principle that God opposes the proud and brings them to utter ruin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But you are cast out of your grave - You are not buried like other kings in a magnificent sepulchre, but are cast out like the comm…
19th Century
Anglican
Like an abominable branch. —The noun is the same as in Isaiah 11:1 and Isaiah 60:21. The idea seems to be that of a scion or shoot…
Baptist
So total, so terrible, so disgraceful, was the destruction of Babylon, that no honour or glory remained to it.
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16th Century
Protestant
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch. He shows that the kings of Babylon will be loaded with such disgrace that th…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But you are cast out of your grave Or rather "from" it F4 ; that is, he was not suffered to be put into it, or…
The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy…
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13th Century
Catholic
409. Her time is near at hand. In this part, he promises liberation to the Jews through the destruction of Babylon, which he threatened abov…
