Tender. — See 1 Chronicles 29:1; 1 Chronicles 13:7; Deuteronomy 20:8.
Hast humbled thyself. — Comp. the behaviour of Ahab (1 Kings 21:27 seq.).
Become a desolation and a curse. — See Jeremiah 44:22. “A curse” is not so much an instance of causa pro effectu (Thenius), as a specification of the type such as would be made in blessing and cursing. (Comp. Jeremiah 29:22; Genesis 48:20; Ruth 4:11-12.)