For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Ver. 8. For this, gird you with sackcloth.] Repent, if at least it be not too late, as the next words hint that now it was.
For the fierce wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.] Or, Because the fierce wrath of the Lord will not turn from us; it will have its full forth. See Zephaniah 2:2. See Trapp on " Zec 2:2 "