For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Ver. 5. We have heard a voice of trembling.] We were at first in a pitiful plight, scil., when the city was taken and the temple burnt (and this is elegantly here set forth, and in the two next verses); but better times are at hand:
“ Flebile principium melior fortuna sequetur. ”