Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.
Ver. 5. Now when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost.] She looked for Jehoahaz's return out of Egypt, as Sisera's mother did for his safe and victorious return from the battle; but all in vain. "The hope of the hypocrite shall perish."
Then she took another of her whelps.] A brat of the same breed, and of no better condition. Judea changed her lords oft, but not her miseries. So did Rome in the times between Augustus and Constantine the Great; the names of those few of them that were good might be written within the compass of a signet, as one said. Scarce any of them died a natural death, unless it were Vespasian, qui solus imperatorum mutatus in melius, a who also was the only emperor that became better by his preferment.
a Tacitus.