Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou shalt even drink it, and suck it out,.... The very dregs of it, that which lies at the bottom, which is the most nauseous and the most pernicious; not through love to it, but through force, shall…
Adam Clarke
Thou shalt - pluck off thine own breasts - Thou shalt tear them; a frequent action in extreme sorrow and desolation. Weeping, tearing the bosom, and beating the breasts.
Tunc vero rupique sinus, et…
Jerusalem stands indicted by the name of Aholibah, for that she, as a false traitor to her sovereign Lord the God of heaven, not having his fear before her eyes, but moved by the instigation of the…
Cambridge Bible
Cf. Psa 75:8; Isa 51:17.
break the sheards gnaw the sherds. The act of plucking out her own breasts is that of one intoxicated to madness, Jer 25:16. The words are wanting in LXX. Beating the breasts…
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