He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
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Gill's Exposition
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,.... The king of Babylon, who made war with the people and nations of the earth, and conquered them, smote them with the edge of the sword to…
Barnes' Notes
He who smote - This may either refer to the king of Babylon, or to the rod or scepter which he had used, and which was now broken. Herder refers it to the scepter, ‘that which smote the nations.’ (On…
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…
Cambridge Bible
He who Better, as R.V., that; the antecedent being the staff,
is persecuted, and none hindereth R.V. "with a persecution that none restrained." The parallelism requires instead of "persecution" a noun…
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