Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Ver. 18. Wail for the multitude.] Prophesy their destruction, but do it not without grief and regret.
Cast them down.] Do thou foretell it, and I will not fail to fulfil it. Jer 1:10 See Trapp on " Jer 1:10 " Let them know that hell gapeth for them; and here I give thee the keys thereof. So God doth to every faithful minister; Mat 16:19 not to Peter only, nor to his pretended successor, the Pope, whom therefore Luther bravely slighted in these words of his, Contemptus est a me Romanus et favor et furor, - I care neither for the Pope's favour nor frowns.