And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Ver. 21. And they shall pass through it.] To and again, as uncertain of their way, and even at their wit's end.
When they shall be hungry.] Cum esurierit et efferbuerit, as a pot boiling casteth up scum.
And curse their king.] Ahaz, say some; Zedekiah, say others.
And their God.] As those Antichristians. Rev 16:9 The Chinese whip their gods when they please them not.
And look upward.] As the hunger bitten wolf howls against heaven.