All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
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Gill's Exposition
All they shall speak, and say unto thee,.... So they would say, could they speak, and are here represented as if they did:
art thou become also weak as we? who had been more powerful than they, had…
Barnes' Notes
All they shall speak ... - Language of astonishment that one so proud, and who apparently never expected to die, should be brought down to that humiliating condition. It is a severe taunt at the great…
The kings of Babylon, successively, were the great enemies and oppressors of God's people, and therefore the destruction of Babylon, the fall of the king, and the ruin of his family, are here…
The second strophe forms an effective contrast to the first. He who had so long troubled the earth becomes a disturbing presence in the under-world; the earth is now at rest, Sheol is troubled.
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