For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
Ver. 21. For death is come up into our windows,] i.e., The killing Chaldees break in upon us at any place of entrance, doors or windows. Joe 2:9 Joh 10:1 The ancients give us warning here to see to our senses - those windows of wickedness - that sin get not into the soul thereby, and death by sin.