18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
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Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; …
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-22)Though this prophecy was to have its accomplishment in the latter days, yet it is here spoken of as if it were already accomplished, because it is certain (Ezek. 39:8): “ Behold it has come, and it is done ; it is as sure to be done when the time shall come as if it were done already; this is the day whereof I have long and often spoken , and, though it has been long in coming, yet at length it ha…
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