Woe unto us, &c.— This is the complaint of the enemy, that they are retarded from their intended expedition by the approach of the night. In the next verse they determine to go up, though it be by night; whereby the great eagerness of the Chaldeans to undertake the siege, from their confidence of success, is signified.
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Jeremiah 6:4
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.