And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
Ver. 12. And he sighed deeply] His heart was straitened (as the word αναστεναξας signifies) and would have burst, but for a vent.
" Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor. "
So those marked mourners sighed and cried for others, who were altogether insensible of their own miseries, Ezekiel 9:4. So Habakkuk trembled and quivered for the Chaldeans' calamities, Habakkuk 3:16 .