Grasshoppers] RV 'Locusts.' The latter growth may possibly mean the grass which springs in Palestine after the late rains in March-April. We cannot be quite certain whether the king's mowings or 'shearings' are here mentioned. Sheep-shearing in N. Palestine takes place about April. The king's mowings would be a portion of the crops taken to feed his horses.
2. Render, 'And as they were about to make an end of eating.. Who shall raise up Jacob?' The question is equivalent to an exclamation: 'Oh that Jacob might be raised up!'
4. He would not conduct His controversy with words, but with a consuming fire (Isaiah 66:16).
The great deep] the abyss on which the earth was supposed to rest (Genesis 7:11; Psalms 24:2). A part] RV 'the land,' the portion appointed to Israel: this, also, the fire was about to consume.
7, 8. Upon a wall] RV 'beside a wall.' The testing of the wall is a symbol of the searching investigation into the people's conduct, which would be followed by a strictly just recompense (2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 34:11; Jeremiah 1:11-12; Lamentations 2:8).