For the LORD hath (b) turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and (c) marred their vine branches.
(b) Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them; read (Isaiah 10:12).
(c) Signifying that the Israelites were utterly destroyed.