Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Ver. 6. Ye have multiplied your slain in this city.] Called therefore a bloody city, Ezekiel 22:2 ; Ezekiel 9:9 ; Eze 7:23 and it shall therefore despume you; Vos sicut spumae eieciemini. Evil counsellors are cruel and bloody-minded; their craft is never but accompanied with cruelty, and their cruelty seldom without craft. "None of them wanteth their mate," as the Scripture speaks of those birds of prey and desolation. Isa 34:16