1 That is, Nebuchadnezzar is in readiness to destroy the Assyrians: and the Prophet derides the undertakings of the Assyrians who prepared to resist him.He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.
2 For the LORD hathSeeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them; read (Isa_10:12).turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, andSignifying that the Israelites were utterly destroyed.marred their vine branches.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red,Both to put fear into the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon detect blood among one another, to discourage them.the valiant men [are] in scarlet: the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, andMeaning their spears would shake and crash together.the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4 The charets shall rage in the streetes: they shall runne to and fro in the hie wayes: they shall seeme like lampes: they shall shoote like the lightning.
5 Then the Assyrians will seek by all means to gather their power, but all things will fail them.He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
6 The gates of the riuers shalbe opened, and the palace shall melt.
7 And Huzzab the Queene shalbe led away captiue, and her maides shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, smiting vpon their breastes.
8 But Nineveh [is] ofThe Assyrians will flatter themselves and say that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters cannot be touched by those that walk on the banks. But they will be scattered, and will not look back, even if men call them.old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.
9 God commands the enemies to spoil Nineveh, and promises them infinite riches and treasures.Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10 That is, Nineveh, and the men of it will be after this manner.She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces{{See Joe_2:6}}of them all gather blackness.
11 Where [is] theMeaning, Nineveh, whose inhabitants were cruel like the lions, and given to all oppression, and spared no violence or tyranny to provide for their wives and children.dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid?
12 The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.
13 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in theThat is, as soon as my wrath begins to burn.smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thySignifying the heralds, who were accustomed to proclaim war. Some read, «of you gum teeth», with which Nineveh was accustomed to bruise the bones of the poor.messengers shall no more be heard.
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