10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)Here is the prophet again singing of mercy and judgment, not, as before, judgment to the enemies and mercy to the church, but judgment to the church and mercy mixed with that judgment. I. Here is judgment threatened even to Jacob and Israel. They shall blossom and bud (Isa. 27:6), but, 1. They shall be smitten and slain (Isa. 27:7), some of them shall. If God find any thing amiss among them, he wi…
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