Upon the land, &c., shall come up thorns and briers If any of you think there is no great cause for such trembling and lamentation, on account of a calamity which shall last but for a year and some days, know that this affliction by the Assyrians is but an earnest of further and sorer judgments. For the time is coming when this land shall be laid desolate; and, instead of vines and other fruits, it shall yield nothing but briers and thorns. Yea, upon all the houses of joy Upon that ground where now your houses stand, in which you take your fill of mirth and pleasure. Because the palaces Hebrew, ארמון, the palace, the king's house, and other magnificent buildings in the city, shall be forsaken
Shall be destitute of inhabitants. The multitude of the city shall be left Shall be forsaken of God and given up into their enemies' hands. The forts, &c ., shall be for dens for ever For a long time; a joy of wild asses Desolate places, in which wild asses delight to be. “This description,” says Bishop Lowth, “of impending distresses belongs to other times than that of Sennacherib's invasion, from which they were so soon delivered. It must, at least, extend to the ruin of the country and city by the Chaldeans. And the promise of blessings which follows was not fulfilled under the Mosaic dispensation; they belong to the kingdom of Messiah.”