No lion shall be there... — We have to remember that the lion had not ceased to haunt the valley of the Jordan, as it had done in the days of Samson (Judges 14:5), and David (1 Samuel 17:3-4; 2 Samuel 23:20). The recent depopulation of the northern kingdom had probably laid the country more open to their attack (2 Kings 17:25), and thus gave a special force to the prophet’s description. For “any ravenous beast,” read the most ravenous.
The redeemed... (10)... the ransomed. — The Hebrew words express simply the idea of release and freedom, without implying, as the English words do, a payment as its condition.