11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
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And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: …
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. …
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great variety of expressions to the same purport, and all aggravating. I. The earth is stripped of all its ornaments and looks as if it were taken off its basis; it is made empty and waste (Isa. 24:1), as if it…
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