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The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
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A Picture of Total Ruin
Commentators explain that the verse lists Israel's most famously beautiful and fertile regions—Lebanon, Sharon, Bashan, and Carmel—to paint a picture of complete national devastation. By showing that even the most glorious and productive parts of the land are ruined, the prophet emphasizes the totality of the crisis.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The earth mourns – The land through which he has passed. For the sense of this phrase, see the note at Isaiah 24:4.
Lebanon is ash…
19th Century
Anglican
The earth mourneth ... — Lebanon, with its cedars, the Sharon (as we say, the Campagna), Bashan, with its oaks (…
16th Century
Protestant
The earth has mourned and languished. Here he describes more fully how wretched and desperate the Jews would perceive their condition to b…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The earth mourneth [and] languisheth
All Christendom, being now under the power, dominion, and tyranny of antichri…
Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own c…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Woe to you who plunder. In this part, the prophet begins to foretell the destruction of Israel’s enemies. This is presented in t…
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