Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Ver. 16. Therefore shall the Lord … send among his fat ones,] i.e., Pingues, torosos et validos milites, his lusty and mastive soldiers, in whom he confided.
Leanness,] i.e., Luem, a plague to tame them, and take them down. See this fulfilled, Isaiah 37:36 .
And under his glory,] i.e., His huge army wherein he glorieth. What need we to fear the Turks, said Sigismund, the young king of Hungary, who need not at all to fear the falling of the heavens? which, if they should fall, yet were we able with our spears and halberds to hold them up from falling upon us. a
He will kindle a burning.] A plague parching up their vitals. The Hebrews say that the bodies of Sennacherib's soldiers were, by the stroke of an angel, so consumed and burnt up, as that their garments and weapons were not burnt at all.
a Turkish History, fol. 206.