The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
Ver. 13. The breaker is come up before them] The πτολιπορθος, τειχεσιπλητης, breach maker shall handle them hardly and cruelly, as galley slaves, or men condemned to the mine pits.
“ Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem. ”
They have broken up] Made havoc, and laid heaps upon heaps.
And their king shall pass before them] Not only fex populi, the dregs of the people, but Rex ipse, the king himself shall be carried captive, as were Hoshea and Zedekiah, the city being broken up, Jeremiah 52:7 .
And the Lord on the head of them] Jehovah, that man of war, Exodus 15:3, going before them, as captain of the enemies' forces, to avenge the quarrel of his covenant, Leviticus 26:25 .