And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
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Gill's Exposition
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it,.... The crown and kingdom of Judah; which being expressed three times, has not respect, as Kimchi thinks, to the three generations, in which the crown ceased…
The third word of judgment. The king of Babylon’s march upon Judaea and upon the Ammonites. Destruction is to go forth not on Judah only, but also on such neighboring tribes as the Ammonites (compare…
Adam Clarke
And thou profane wicked prince of Israel - Zedekiah, called here profane, because he had broken his oath; and wicked, because of his opposition to God and his prophet.
Whose day is come - Who in a…
The prophet, in the verses before, had shown them the sword coming; he here shows them that sword coming against them, that they might not flatter themselves that by some means or other it should be…
Cambridge Bible
profane wicked prince Or, and thou wicked one, who art to be slain, prince of Israel. The sense "profane" is not quite certain, cf. fem., Lev 21:7; Lev 21:14.
when iniquity … an end in the time of the…
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