And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
Ver. 17. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men] The Dutch have a proverb, God puts out the eyes of him whom he intendeth to destroy; i.e. he besots and infatuates them, they shall be consilii et auxilii inopes: in rebus liquidis aqua haerebit: they grope for the wall like the blind, they grope as if they had no eyes: they stumble at noon day as in the night; they are in desolate places as dead men, Isaiah 59:10. This was long before threatened, Deuteronomy 28:28,29 .
Because they have sinned against the Lord] Sin is the mother of misery. See my Lovetokens.
And their blood shall be poured out as dust] Than which nothing is more vile and abject; the enemy shall make no more of spilling their blood than of sprinkling a little dust, Copiosissime et abiectissime most richly and lowly. (Turner.)
And their flesh as dung] Spread upon the land to manure it. The Hebrew word for flesh here may seem to signify worms' meat. Our bodies are no better, why then do we pamper and pink them up?