Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou, therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together,.... As being in the greatest agony for what is coming upon thy people: or "strike hand to hand" (y); clap them together, as…
The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword;” it is written in the form of Hebrew poetry, with its characteristic parallelism. Eze…
Adam Clarke
Smite - upon thy thigh - See on Jer 31:19 (note). So Homer, Il. 15 ver. 113: -
Ὡς εφατ'· αυταρ Αρης θαλερω πεπληγετο μηρω
Χερσι καταπρηνεσσ,ολοφυρομενος δε προσηυδα.
"She spake; and, with expanded…
Here is another prophecy of the sword, which is delivered in a very affecting manner; the expressions here used are somewhat intricate, and perplex interpreters. The sword was unsheathed in the…
Cambridge Bible
terrors … the sword With R. V. they (the princes) are delivered over to the sword with my people.
smite upon thy thigh A gesture implying despair or the sense of a terrible and irreparable evil…
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