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wasteness...desolation--The Hebrew terms by their similarity of sounds, Shoah, Umeshoah, express the dreary monotony of desolation (see on Na 2:10).
Quotation from Ps 110:1. The image is taken from the custom of conquerors putting the feet on the necks of the conquered (Jos 10:24,25).
They--Turning from a direct address to Ephraim, he uses the third person plural to characterize the people in general. The Hebrew is against the Margin, their doings will not suffer them" the...
Maaleh-akrabbim--Hebrew, "the ascent of scorpions"; a pass in the "bald mountain" (see on Jos 11:17), probably much infested by these venomous reptiles.
caterpillar--the Hebrew name, from its voracity, and that of-- locust--from its multitude.
This verse is more fitly joined to the last chapter, as verse 23 in the Hebrew (compare Isa 22:4; La 2:11; 3:48).
The Hebrew expresses "one merciful and good in relation to man," rather than to God. is perished out of the earth--(Ps 12:1).
rivers--in Hebrew, "two rivers." Hence Hebrew expositors think that the waters from the temple were divided into two branches, the one emptying itself into the eastern or Dead Sea, the other into...
Unto Shem--The historian introduces him with marked distinction as "the father of Eber," the ancestor of the Hebrews.
Tibni died--The Hebrew does not enable us to determine whether his death was violent or natural.
destroy...destruction--"break them with a double breach," Hebrew (Jer 14:17). On "double," see on Jer 16:18.
Abraham planted a grove--Hebrew, "of tamarisks," in which sacrificial worship was offered, as in a roofless temple.
guide--literally, "friend" (Pr 16:28; 17:9). acquaintance--in Hebrew, a yet more intimate associate.
serve...till it--The same Hebrew root expresses "serve" and "till," or "cultivate." Serve ye the king of Babylon, and the land will serve you [Calvin].
look well to him--Hebrew, "set thine eyes upon him"; provide for his well-being.
pulse--The Hebrew expresses any vegetable grown from seeds, that is, vegetable food in general [Gesenius].
vengeance...such as they have not heard--or, as the Hebrew order favors, "the nations that have not hearkened to My warnings." So the Septuagint (Ps 149:7).
Ishmael--Like other Hebrew names, this had a signification, and it is made up of two words--"God hears." The reason is explained.
the bay--Hebrew, "tongue." It pushes its waters out in this form to a great distance [Robinson].
vile figs--Hebrew, "horrible," or nauseous, from a root, "to regard with loathing" (see Jer 24:8, 10).
worshipped--In the Hebrew a corrupt form is used to express Ezekiel's sense of the foul corruption of such worship.
For--proving His life to be "endless" or indissoluble (Heb 7:16). The emphasis is on "for ever." The oldest manuscripts read, "He is testified of, that Thou art," &c.
Also now--Even now, when I am so greatly misunderstood on earth, God in heaven is sensible of my innocence. record--Hebrew, "in the high places"; Hebrew, "my witness." Amidst all his impatience,...
inward parts...heart--But "dark clouds" ("shining phenomena") [Umbreit]; "meteor" [Maurer], referring to the consultation of these as signs of weather by the husbandman (Ec 11:4). But Hebrew...
summer fruit--Hebrew, kitz. In Am 8:2 "end" is in Hebrew, keetz. The similarity of sounds implies that, as the summer is the end of the year and the time of the ripeness of fruits, so Israel is...
Jonah--meaning in Hebrew, "dove." Compare Ge 8:8, 9, where the dove in vain seeks rest after flying from Noah and the ark: so Jonah. Grotius not so well explains it, "one sprung from Greece" or...
may--rather as Greek, expressing confidence actually realized, "So that we boldly (confidently) say" (Ps 56:4, 11; 118:6). Punctuate as both the Hebrew and the Greek require, "And (so) I will not...
(See on Job 33:24); rather, as Hebrew text (English Version reads as the Margin, Hebrew, Keri, "his soul, his life"), "He hath delivered my soul...my life." Continuation of the penitent's testimony...