Deuteronomy 28:15-68
ignore <08085> [if thou wilt.]
curses <07045> [all these curses.]
The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings.
city <05892> [in the city.]
field <07704> [in the field.]
children ......... produce <0990 06529> [the fruit of thy body.]
soil <0127> [thy land.]
send <07971> [send.]
confusing <04103> [vexation.]
<06213> [for to do. Heb. which thou wouldest do. until thou be.]
weakness <07829> [a consumption.]
sword <02719> [sword. or, drought. blasting.]
The language here is remarkable: "Thy heaven;" that part of the atmosphere which was over Judea, instead of being replenished with aqueous vapours, should become, with respect to moisture, like brass: and consequently their land would become as hard as iron, and wholly incapable of cultivation; while the clouds might give showers in abundance, and the earth be moist and fruitful in other regions.
will make ... rain <04306 05414> [make the rain.]
This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans.
allow ..... struck <05414 05062> [cause thee.]
terror <02189> [removed. Heb. for a removing.]
boils <07822> [the botch.]
<02914> [emerods.]
eczema <01618> [scab.]
feel ... way along ....................... constantly .... continually <04959> [grope.]
oppressed <06231> [thou shalt be.]
engaged <0781> [betroth.]
build <01129> [build.]
begin <02490> [gather. Heb. profane, or, use it as common meat.]
ox <07794> [ox.]
returned ..... flock <07725 06629> [be restored to thee. Heb. return to thee.]
sons <01121> [sons.]
In several countries, particularly in Spain and Portugal, the children of the Jews have been taken from them, by order of the government, to be educated in the Popish faith.
vain <03616> [fail.]
produce <06529> [The fruit.]
oppressed <06231> [thou shalt be.]
boils <07822> [botch.]
king <03212 04428> [bring thee.]
serve <05647> [there shalt thou.]
The Israelites, who were carried captive by the Assyrians, and many of the Jews in Chaldea, were finally incorporated with the nations among whom they lived, and were given up to their idolatry. It is probable, however, that this refers to Jews being compelled, in Popish countries, to conceal their religion, and profess that of the Romish church.
occasion of horror <08047> [become.]
proverb <04912> [a proverb.]
The name of Jew has long been a proverbial mark of detestation and contempt among all the nations whither they have been dispersed, and is so to this day, whether among Christians, Mohmammedans, or Pagans.
take <03318> [shalt carry.]
locusts <0697> [for the locust.]
worms <08438> [for the worms.]
anoint ..... oil <05480 08081> [anoint thyself.]
<03212> [thou shalt not enjoy them. Heb. they shall not be thine. for.]
tree <06086> [thy trees.]
<03423> [consume. or, possess.]
curses <07045> [Moreover.]
obey <08085> [because.]
sign <0226> [a sign.]
serve <05647> [serve.]
hunger <07458> [in hunger.]
yoke <05923> [a yoke.]
raise up .... nation ................. nation <01471 05375> [bring a nation.]
Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.
eagle <05404> [as the eagle.]
nation ................. nation ... language <01471 03956> [a nation whose.]
understand <08085> [understand. Heb. hear.]
stern ....... regard <05794 06440> [of fierce countenance. Heb. strong of face.]
<05375> [shall not.]
offspring ....... produce <06529> [the fruit.]
leave <07604> [which also.]
offspring <06529> [the fruit.]
offspring <0990> [body. Heb. belly.]
<05869> [his eye.]
wife .... remaining <0802 03499> [and toward.]
The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"
children <01121> [his children.]
[in the seige.]
delicate <06028> [and delicate.]
<05869 03415> [her eye shall be evil.]
afterbirth <07988> [young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.]
eat <0398> [for she shall.]
obey <08104> [If thou wilt.]
fear ... glorious ... awesome <03513 03372> [fear this glorious.]
mentioned .......... perished <05927 08045> [bring upon thee. Heb. cause to ascend.]
few <04592 04962> [few in number.]
In the seige of Jerusalem there died 1,100,000 persons, and more than 90,000 were carried captive; and, having afterwards provoked the Romans by their crimes and rebellions, they persecuted them nearly to extirpation; to which, if the tens of thousands which were slaughtered year after year in every country be added, it appears wonderful that there were any remains left.
stars <03556> [as the stars.]
delighted .... good ........... delight <07797 03190> [rejoiced over.]
delighted .............. delight ... destroying <07797 06> [rejoice over.]
uprooted .... land <05255 0127> [plucked from.]
scatter <06327> [scatter.]
worship <05647> [there thou shalt.]
those <01992> [among.]
After the conquest of their country by the Romans, Hadrian, by a public decree, ratified by the senate, forbad any Jew to come even within sight of Judea; and hence they were dispersed over every quarter of the globe, where they found no alleviation or respite from misery. In no country are they treated as denizens; all suspect them as enemies, and behave to them as aliens; if they do not, as had been too frequently the case, harass, oppress, and persecute them, even unto death.
rest <07280> [shalt thou.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
failing eyesight <05869 03631> [failing of eyes.]
return ... Egypt <04714 07725> [bring thee into Egypt.]
This verse seems especially to point out an event, which took place subsequently to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, and the desolation made by Hadrian. Numbers of the captives were sent by sea into Egypt (as well as into other countries), and sold for slaves at a vile price, and for the meanest offices; and many thousands were left to perish from want; for the multitude was so great, that purchasers could not be found for them all at any price!
sell <04376> [there ye shall.]
Deuteronomy 29:18-28
man <0376> [among you man.]
root <08328> [among you a root.]
poisonous ... bitter fruit <07219 03939> [gall and wormwood. or, a poisonful herb. Heb. rosh.]
oath <0423> [this curse.]
blesses <01288> [that he bless.]
<03588 03212> [though I walk.]
stubborn <08307> [imagination. or, stubborness.]
destroy <05595> [to add.]
A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.
watered ..... parched <07302 06771> [drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.]
will ... unwilling ... forgive <014 05545> [will not spare.]
anger <0639> [the anger.]
rage <07068> [his jealousy.]
intense <06225> [smoke.]
curses <0423> [all the curses.]
obliterate <04229> [blot out.]
single <0914> [separate.]
written <03789> [are written. Heb. is written.]
Lord <03068 02470> [which the Lord hath laid upon it. Heb. wherewith the Lord hath made it sick.]
brimstone <01614> [brimstone.]
salt <04417> [salt.]
destruction <04114> [like the.]
abandoned <05800> [Because.]
abandoned <05800> [they have forsaken.]
<03212> [they went.]
gods ..... gods ..... know <0430 03045> [gods whom.]
permit <02505> [whom he had, etc. or, who had not given to them any portion. given. Heb. divided.]
curses <07045> [all the curses.]
uprooted ..... land <05428 0127> [rooted them.]
today <03117> [as it is this day.]
Psalms 107:34
fruitful <06529> [a fruitful.]
barren <04420> [barrenness. Heb. saltness.]
Ezekiel 16:1-63
Jerusalem <03389> [cause.]
abominable practices <08441> [abominations.]
origin <04351> [Thy birth. Heb. Thy cutting out, or habitation.]
Amorite <0567> [Amorite.]
Hittite <02850> [Hittite.]
birth <04138> [for.]
rubbed down ... salt <04935 04414> [to supple thee. or, when I looked upon thee. nor.]
eye <05869> [eye.]
thrown out <07993> [but thou.]
saw <07200> [and saw.]
kicking around helplessly <0947> [polluted. or, trodden under foot.]
Live ............. Live <02421> [Live.]
made <05414> [caused, etc. Heb. made thee a million.]
jewelry <05716> [excellent ornaments. Heb. ornament of ornaments.]
naked <05903> [whereas.]
noticing that <06256> [thy time.]
spread <06566> [and I.]
solemn <07650> [I sware.]
bathed ..... washed <07364 07857> [washed.]
blood <01818> [blood. Heb. bloods.]
fragrant <05480> [anointed.]
dressed <03847> [clothed.]
embroidered clothing <07553> [broidered.]
fine leather <08476> [badgers' skin.]
wrapped <02280> [I girded.]
covered <03680> [covered.]
put <05414> [I put.]
necklace <07242> [a chain.]
[forehead. Heb. nose.]
[ear-rings.]
necklace <07242> [and a.]
ate .............. attained the position <0398 06743> [thou didst.]
extremely <03966> [and thou wast.]
attained the position <06743> [and thou didst.]
fame <08034> [thy renown.]
splendor <01926> [through.]
trusted <0982> [thou didst.]
prostitute <02181> [and playedst.]
fame <08034> [because.]
Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.
capitalized <08210> [and pouredst.]
took <03947> [hast also.]
male <02145> [men. Heb. a male. and didst.]
This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.
food <03899> [meat.]
soothing aroma <07381 05207> [a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.]
sons <01121> [thy sons.]
sacrificed <02076> [and these.]
eat <0398> [be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.]
children <01121> [my children.]
sacrificed <05674> [to pass.]
Woe Woe <0188> [woe.]
built <01129> [thou hast.]
chamber <01354> [eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.]
head <07218> [at every.]
beauty <03308> [and hast made.]
Egyptians <01121> [with the.]
stretched <05186> [I have.]
cut off <01639> [and have.]
rations <02706> [thine.]
{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.
delivered <05414> [delivered.]
The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.
daughters <01323> [daughters. or, cities.]
ashamed <03637> [which.]
land <0776> [in the land.]
Babylonia <03778> [unto.]
sick <0535> [weak.]
deeds <04639> [the work.]
built ... chamber <01129 01354> [In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine, etc.]
<06213> [makest.]
scoffed <07046> [in that thou scornest.]
receive ...... give <05414> [give.]
receive ...... give <05414> [but thou.]
bribe <07809> [hirest. Heb. bribest.]
prostitute <02181> [O harlot.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
lust <05178> [Because.]
nakedness <06172> [and thy.]
blood <01818> [and by.]
adulteress <05003> [as women. Heb. with judgments of women, etc.]
murderer <08210> [shed.]
give <05414> [And I.]
For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people.
destroy <02040> [they shall throw.]
strip <06584> [shall strip.]
beautiful jewelry <08597 03627> [thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.]
summon <05927> [shall also.]
hack .... pieces <01333> [and thrust.]
burn down <08313> [burn.]
execute <06213> [and execute.]
Thus I will put ... stop <07673> [and I.]
rage <02534> [will I.]
angry <03707> [and will.]
remember <02142> [thou hast.]
enraged <07264> [but hast.]
repay <05414> [I also.]
proverbs ... quote ...... Like <04911> [every.]
mother <0517> [As is.]
[that loatheth.]
mother ......................... mother <0517> [your mother.]
older <01419> [elder.]
sister .............. younger sister <0269 06996> [thy younger sister. Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.]
daughters ............... daughters <01323> [her daughters.]
short ...... more <04592 06985> [as if that were a very little thing. or, that was loathed as a small thing.]
depraved <07843> [thou wast.]
majesty <01347> [pride.]
abundance <07653> [fulness.]
ease <02388> [neither.]
practiced <06213> [and committed.]
removed <05493> [therefore.]
Samaria <08111> [Samaria.]
righteous <06663> [justified.]
<06419> [which hast.]
bear ... disgrace .................................. So ...... bear ... disgrace <05375 03639> [bear thine.]
justify ............. than .......................... righteous <06663> [they are more.]
restore ... fortunes ... fortunes ......... fortunes .......... fortunes <07725 07622> [bring.]
among <08432> [in the midst.]
bear <05375> [thou mayest.]
consoling <05162> [in that.]
daughters ............ daughters ............. daughters <01323> [then.]
byword <08052> [was not.]
byword <08052> [mentioned. Heb. for a report, or a hearing. pride. Heb. prides, or excellencies.]
evil <07451> [thy wickedness.]
scorn <02781> [reproach.]
Aram <0758> [Syria. Heb. Aram.]
daughters ............ daughters <01323> [the daughters.]
despise <07590> [despise. or, spoil.]
bear <05375> [hast.]
bear <05375> [borne. Heb. borne them.]
deal ......... done <06213> [I will.]
despised <0959> [which.]
remember <02142> [I will remember.]
establish <06965> [I will establish.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
receive <03947> [when.]
give <05414> [I will.]
covenant <01285> [but not.]
establish <06965> [I will.]
know <03045> [and thou.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
silent <06610> [and never.]
atonement <03722> [when.]
Ezekiel 22:1--23:49
pronounce judgment .... bloody <08199> [judge. or, plead for.]
bloody city <05892 01818> [bloody city. Heb. city of bloods.]
Then confront <03045> [thou shalt.]
[shew her. Heb. make her know. her abominations.]
spills <08210> [sheddeth.]
doom <06256> [that her.]
makes <06213> [and maketh.]
shed <08210> [that thou.]
day <03117> [and thou hast.]
make <05414> [have I.]
bad ... full ... turmoil <07227 04103 02931> [infamous and much vexed. Heb. polluted of name, much in vexation.]
princes <05387> [the princes.]
authority <02220> [power. Heb. arm.]
contempt <07043> [set.]
<06213> [dealt.]
oppressed <06233> [oppression. or, deceit.]
Slanderous men <07400 0582> [men that carry tales. Heb. men of slanders.]
eat <0398> [they eat.]
acts <06213> [they commit.]
sex <01540> [discovered.]
violate <06031> [humbled.]
obscenely <0376> [one. or, every one. committed.]
obscenely <0376> [another. or, every one. hath lewdly. or, hath by lewdness.]
sister <0269> [his sister.]
take bribes ............ charge <07810 03947> [taken gifts.]
take ............. charge .... extort <03947 01214> [thou hast.]
extort <01214> [greedily.]
forgotten <07911> [and hast.]
strike <05221> [I have.]
dishonest profit <01215> [thy dishonest.]
bloodshed <01818> [and at.]
heart <03820> [Thine heart.]
Lord <03068> [I the.]
scatter <06327> [scatter.]
<08552> [consume.]
profaned ...... sight <02490 05869> [take thine inheritance in thyself. or, be profaned in thyself.]
know <03045> [thou shalt know.]
house <01004> [the house.]
bronze <05178> [brass.]
in <08432> [in the midst.]
slag ..................... slag <05509> [dross. Heb. drosses.]
gather <06908> [I will.]
Jerusalem is here represented as the fining pot; all the people, who had become dross, are to be gathered together in it; and the fire of the Chaldeans, blown by the wrath of God, is to melt the whole. No ordinary means will avail to purge their impurities; the most violent must therefore be resorted to.
gathered <06910> [As they gather. Heb. According to the gathering. to blow.]
anger <0639> [in mine.]
blow <05301> [and blow.]
melted <05413> [and ye.]
know <03045> [ye shall know.]
princes <07195> [a conspiracy.]
roaring <07580> [like.]
tearing <02963> [ravening.]
That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.
devoured <0398> [they have devoured.]
priests <03548> [priests.]
abuse <02554> [violated. Heb. offered violence to. profaned.]
distinguish <0914> [put no.]
ignore <05956 05869> [hid their.]
desecrated ................................ profaned <02490> [I am profaned.]
officials <08269> [princes.]
get dishonest <01214> [to get.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.
see <02374> [seeing.]
saying ...... sovereign ... says <0559 0136> [Thus saith the Lord.]
people <05971> [people.]
practiced extortion .............. oppressed <06231> [oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.]
justice <04941> [wrongfully. Heb. without right.]
looked <01245> [I sought.]
God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.
repair <01443> [make.]
poured <08210> [have I poured.]
hereby <01870> [their own.]
two <08147> [two.]
Egypt <04714> [in Egypt.]
youth <05271> [in their.]
name ........ name <08034> [the names.]
The kingdom of Israel, of which Samaria was the capital, containing ten tribes, and occupying a larger extent of country than that of Judah, is therefore called "her elder sister;" and Aholah, the name given to her, implies that the whole religious establishment in Israel was a human invention, a temple and service of their own, and not of God's appointment. Aholibah, the name given to Judah, implies that the worship established there was from God, and that His temple was truly at Jerusalem.
older <01419> [the elder.]
birth <03205> [they were.]
Oholah .......................... Oholah <0170> [Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle.]
Oholibah ...................... Oholibah <0172> [Aholibah. that is, My tabernacle in her.]
Oholah <0170> [Aholah.]
The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria.
lusted <05689> [doted.]
Assyrians <0804> [on the.]
desirable <02531> [all of.]
bestowed ... sexual favors <08457 05414> [committed her whoredoms with them. Heb. bestowed her whoredoms upon them.]
choicest young men ... Assyria <01121 0804 04005> [the chosen men of Assyria. Heb. the choice of the children of Asshur.]
idols <01544> [with all their.]
prostitution ..................... ravished <08457> [whoredoms.]
exposed <01540> [discovered.]
seized ........ her <03947> [they took.]
notorious <08034> [famous. Heb. a name.]
sister .............................. sister <0269> [her sister.]
corrupt .... lust <05691 07843> [was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she. Heb. she corrupted her inordinate love more than she. her sister in her whoredoms. Heb. the whoredoms of her sister.]
Assyrians ............ horses <01121 05483> [upon.]
governors <06346> [captains.]
both <08147> [that they.]
carved ......... carved <02707 02710> [pourtrayed.]
bright red <08350> [vermilion.]
belts <0232> [with girdles.]
officers <07991> [all of.]
looking like <04758> [look to.]
That is, "princes in appearance;" which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.
saw <05869 04758> [as soon as she saw them with her eyes. Heb. at the sight of her eyes.]
sent <07971> [and sent.]
Babylonians <01121> [Babylonians. Heb. children of Babel.]
<05315> [and her.]
disgusted <03363> [alienated. Heb. loosed, or disjointed.]
exposed <01540> [discovered.]
I <05315> [then.]
increased <07235> [multiplied.]
remembering <02142> [in calling.]
stir <05782> [I will raise.]
<05315> [from.]
bring <0935> [and I.]
Babylonians ............. Assyrians <01121> [Babylonians.]
Chaldeans <03778> [the Chaldeans.]
Pekod <06489> [Pekod.]
Babylonians ............. Assyrians <01121> [the Assyrians.]
desirable <02531> [desirable.]
weapons <02021> [with chariots.]
assign <05414> [I will set.]
direct <05414> [I will set.]
cut off <05493> [they shall take away.]
This refers to the severe vengeance which enraged husbands took on their faithless wives: and implies that God would employ the Chaldeans to destroy the princes and priests of Judah, for violating their covenants and treaties. Such punishments were anciently common; and such is the present practice in one of the South Sea Islands.
seize ... sons <03947 01121> [they shall take thy.]
survivors ................ survivors <0319> [thy residue.]
strip <06584> [strip.]
beautiful jewelry <03627 08597> [fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thy decking.]
obscene <02154> [will I.]
prostitution <02184> [and thy.]
practiced <05375> [so that.]
These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it. This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment. For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of 2,414 years.
hate <08130> [whom thou.]
treat <06213> [deal.]
nakedness <06172> [the nakedness.]
prostitution <02181> [thou hast.]
polluting <02930> [because thou art.]
followed ....... so <01980> [walked.]
cup <03563> [her.]
drink <08354> [drink.]
scorned <06712> [thou shalt be.]
overcome <04390> [filled.]
cup ........ cup ... horror <03563 08047> [with the cup of astonishment.]
drain ... dry <08354> [drink.]
tear out <05423> [and pluck.]
forgotten <07911> [Because.]
completely disregarded <07993> [and cast.]
says ............. bear <0559 05375> [therefore.]
willing ... pronounce <08199> [wilt.]
willing ... pronounce <08199> [judge. or, plead for.]
Oholah <0170> [Aholah.]
declare <05046> [declare.]
adultery ........... adultery ...... their <05003> [they have.]
blood <01818> [and blood.]
sons <01121> [have also.]
done ........... desecrated <06213 02930> [they have.]
profaned <02490> [and have.]
came <0935> [they came.]
done <06213> [thus.]
sent ............. set out <07971> [ye have.]
arrived <0935> [to come. Heb. coming.]
bathed <07364> [thou didst.]
painted <03583> [paintedst.]
{Kachalt aineych,} rendered by the LXX. [estibizou tous ophthalmous sou;] "thou didst paint thine eyes with stibium," and Vulgate {circumlinisti stibio oculos tuos,} "thou didst paint round thine eyes with stibium," or lead ore; whence it is called in Arabic {kochl,} and in Syriac {kecholo,} and {koochlo.}
decorated yourself <05710> [and deckedst.]
magnificent <03520> [stately. Heb. honourable.]
table <07979> [a table.]
placed <07760> [whereupon.]
sound <06963> [a voice.]
This seems to be an account of an idolatrous festival, perhaps that of Bacchus; in which a riotous and drunken multitude assembled, adorned with bracelets and chaplets, accompanied with music, songs, and dances.
men <07230> [common sort. Heb. multitude of men. were brought.]
<05436> [Sabeans. or, drunkards. bracelets.]
worn out <01087> [old.]
immoral acts <08457> [whoredoms with her. Heb. her whoredoms.]
had sex .............. had sex <0935> [so went.]
But ....... appropriately <06662> [the righteous.]
The Chaldeans, so called, because appointed by God to execute his judgment on these criminals.
adulteresses <05003 04941> [after the manner of adulteresses.]
adulteresses <05003> [because.]
up <05927> [I will.]
terror ... plunder <0957 02189> [to be removed and spoiled. Heb. for a removing and spoil.]
army <06951> [the company.]
slash ..... swords <01254 02719> [dispatch them. or, single them out.]
kill <02026> [shall slay.]
burn <08313> [and burn.]
obscene ................... obscene <02154> [I cause.]
women <0802> [that.]
repay <05414> [they shall.]
punished <05375> [ye shall bear.]
know <03045> [and ye shall know.]
