Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Ver. 12. Be astonished, O heavens!] A poetic and pathetic expression. Compare Deu 32:1 Isaiah 1:2 .
Be horribly afraid.] Horripilamini portento malitiae, quod iam dicturus sum; be aghast at such a prodigious wickedness.
Be very desolate.] As the sun seemed to be, when at the death of Christ he hid his head in a mantle of black, which made, they say, a the heathen astrologer break out into these words, Either the God of nature suffereth, or else the world is at an end.
a Dionys.