6And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
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The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. …
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-7)The prophet here comes to foretel what share the neighbouring nations should have in the destruction made upon those parts of the world by Nebuchadnezzar and his victorious Chaldees, as others of the prophets did at that time, which is designed, 1. To awaken the people of the Jews, by making them sensible how strong, how deep, how large, the inundation of calamities should be, that the day of the…
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