And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. Punishment on the foe, the last anti-Christian confederacy (Isaiah 59:18; Isaiah 66:24; Ezek. 38:39; Revelation 19:17-21).
Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue - a living death: the corruption (Galatians 6:8) of death combined in ghastly union with the conscious sensibility of life. Sin will be felt by the sinner, in all its loathsomeness, inseparably clinging to him as a festering putrid body.