2Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The title of this prophecy is very observable. It is the burden of the valley of vision , of Judah and Jerusalem; so all agree. Fitly enough is Jerusalem called a valley, for the mountains were round about it, and the land of Judah abounded with fruitful valleys; and by the judgments of God, though they had been as a towering mountain, they should be brought low, sunk and depressed, and become dar…
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