No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Ver. 11. No foot of man or beast shall pass through it.] This was solitudo solitudinis indeed, a dreadful desolation. When it happened no history mentioneth, but that it was so is most sure. Oh the dismal effects of sin in all ages, as now in various parts of Turkey, utterly unpeopled, though once flourishing!