Burden] oracle, or prophecy: see Jeremiah 23:33-40. In the land] RV 'upon the land.'
Hadrach] not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible. On the Assyrian tablets it is associated with Damascus, and must have been somewhere in that quarter, in the valley of the Orontes. The various places mentioned follow the course pursued by Alexander the Great in his campaign in 332 b.c., viz. through Syria, Phœnicia, and Philistia. The rest thereof] RV 'its' (the prophecy's) 'resting-place.' When the eyes of man, etc.] better, 'for the Lord hath an eye upon man (i.e. the heathen) and all the tribes of Israel.' If the prophecy belongs to the beginning of the 2nd cent. b.c. (see Intro.), then the reference is to the kingdom of the Seleucidæ, in whose territories lay all the places mentioned.