They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.
Ver. 23. They shall cut down her forest,] i.e., Her many cities. Herodotus telleth of one thousand and twenty cities that were in the land of Egypt in the days of King Amasis.
Because they are more than the grasshoppers.] The Babylonian sellers are; and those many hands will make light work. a
a Lib. ii.; Diodor., lib. i. cap. 31.