Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Ver. 11. Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced,] a scil., In a thing of naught, as Amo 6:13 and in the miseries of my people ye were madly merry; therefore shall ye be let bleed in the vena cava, hollow vein.
Because ye are grown fat.] Ye have laughed yourselves fat, you have fatted yourselves as in a day of slaughter or of good cheer. It was at a feast that Babylon was taken.
And bellow as bulls.] Or, Neigh as steeds, lusty steeds.
a Causam ponit petulantiam et dicacitatem. - Oecol.