The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
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Gill's Exposition
The earth mourneth, and fadeth away,.... It mourns, because of its inhabitants being destroyed; and it fades away, because stripped of its wealth and riches: so the kings of the earth, and merchants…
Barnes' Notes
The earth mourneth - The word ‘earth’ here, as in Isa 24:1, means the land of Judea, or that and so much of the adjacent countries as would be subject to the desolation described. The figure here is…
It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great…
The earth lies under a curse on account of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
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