Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Ver. 9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven] i.e. Thou shall lay upon them grievous and exquisite miseries, Lamentations 5:10. He alludeth to the overthrow of Sodom, saith Vatablus.
The Lord shall swallow them up] As the fire doth the fuel. Some think the prophet here alludeth to that direful kind of punishment which David inflicted upon the Ammonites whom he made to pass through the brickkiln, 2 Samuel 12:31, perhaps the furnace of their idol Moloch or Milcom, wherein they caused their children to pass through the fire, 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 23:10 .
And the fire shall devour them] Hell fire, saith the Chaldee paraphrast.