Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Ver. 5. Ye have not gone up into the gaps.] Reclaimed the people from their impieties, those inlets of plagues, nor interceded for them by your prayers to God to turn away wrath, but hastened it. Ye have built indeed a wall, and daubed it with mortar, but such as is untempered, Eze 13:10 arena sine calce, like ill architects.
Neither made up the hedge.] To keep foxes out of God's vineyard; it is even opentide.
To stand in the battle.] As David's three worthies did in the barley field and delivered it. 1Ch 11:14 Or as Marulla the maid of Lemnos, who, like a fierce amazon, desperately fought with the Turks in defence of her country, Coccinum, a city in that island, and kept them out till more company came to her relief, moved with the alarm. a
a Turkish History, 417.