take up. parable. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:7; Numbers 23:18; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15; Numbers 24:20; Numbers 24:23). Twice in Job (Job 27:1; Job 29:1); once in Isaiah (Isaiah 14:4); once in Habakkuk (Habakkuk 2:6). Not elsewhere. App-92. Note the Figure of speech Chleuasmos (App-6).
lament with. doleful lamentation. Note the Figures of speech P olyptoton and Paronomasia (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew venahah nehi nihyah. wail. wailing of woe.
changed. changed [for the worse]. Hebrew. mur. not halaph = changed [for the better]. See note on Leviticus 27:10.
turning away. to. heathen: i.e. our enemy the Assyrian.