Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Ver. 5. Baldness is come upon Gaza,] i.e., Extreme grief, which might have been prevented, had she profited by her former calamity. Jer 47:1 But till God come in with sanctifying grace, afflictions, those hammers of his, do but beat upon cold iron. Lev 19:27-28 Jer 16:6
Ashkelon is cut off.] Or, Is silenced; which was wont to be full of singing, dancing, and loud luring. Here was born, they say, Herod the infanticide, surnamed therefore Ascalonita. a
With the remnant of their valley.] Palestine lay most of it low, and was yet to be laid lower.
a Adrichom.