And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Ver. 6. Make them drunk in my fury.] I will give them large draughts of my displeasure. as Psa 75:9 I will infatuate and utterly disable them to rebel and resist; yea, I will make them drunk with their own blood, as with new wine. Isa 49:26 Rev 16:6 See Trapp on " Rev 16:6 " The perverse Jews, at the last destruction of their city, became a famous instance, being buried, as it were, in a bog of blood.
And I will bring down their strength.] Or, Their blood, as it is rendered Isaiah 63:3, eo quod vita et virtus hominis in sanguine, a because life and strength is in the blood.
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