And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Ver. 21. The Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high.] Altitudinis in excelso. Hereby he may mean the Jews, God's "firstborn, and therefore higher than the kings of the earth," Psa 89:27 though now for most part degenerated, and therefore in the next words also heavily threatened, for versum vicesimum primum secundus explicat, saith Scultetus.