I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ver. 16. I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall.] As the earth seems to shake at the fall of some mighty cedar.
“ Sic subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt. ”
Shall be comforted.] In so noble a companion and partaker of their misery. Compare Isa 14:1-3