35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-38)We have, in these verses, a further description of those terrible desolations which the king of Babylon with his armies should make in all the countries and nations round about Jerusalem. In Jerusalem God had erected his temple; there were his oracles and ordinances, which the neighbouring nations should have attended to and might have received benefit by; thither they should have applied for the…
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