For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
Ver. 5. For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down.] Great is the woe of war; no words how wide soever can set forth to the full the distress and destruction thereof.
And of perplexity.] Mebusah samebucah, so the original elegantly, as in the last words of the verse, rythmically.
Breaking down the walls.] a According to Isaiah 5:5 .
a Dominus exparietavit. - Vatab.