2Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. …
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? …
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: …
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)In dark and figurative expressions, as is usual in the scripture predictions of things at a great distance, that destruction of Jerusalem and of the Jewish church and nation is here foretold which our Lord Jesus, when the time was at hand, prophesied of very plainly and expressly. We have here, 1. Preparation made for that destruction (Zech. 11:1): “ Open thy doors, O Lebanon ! Thou wouldst not op…
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