I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
I have set the point of the sword, х 'ibchat (H19)] - 'the whirling glance of the sword' (Fairbairn). 'The naked (bared) sword' (Henderson).
Their ruins х hamiksholiym (H4383)] - literally, stumblingblocks. Their own houses and walls shall be stumblingblocks in their way, whether they wish to fight or flee.
Ah! it is made bright - made to glitter.
It is wrapped up for the slaughter - it is wrapped, namely, in the hand of him who holds the hilt, or in its scabbard, that the edge may not be blunt when it is presently drawn forth to strike. Gesenius, as the margin, translates х mª`uTaah (H4593)], 'it is sharpened,' etc. [The Hebrew is rather from 'aaTaah, to cover with the hand, or else with the scabbard.]