And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Ver. 7. Who gave them up to desolation.] Heb., To astonishment: fecit ut omnes mirarentur, ac misererentur.
As ye see.] For it is to be hoped that your afflictions - those pillulae lucis - have cleared up your eyesight.