And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
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Gill's Exposition
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people,.... Or, "the covering of the face" (f); that which has covered the face of all people; that darkness which has been…
Barnes' Notes
And he will destroy - Hebrew, ‘He will swallow up,’ that is, he will abolish, remove, or take away. In this mountain the face of the covering - In mount Zion, or in Jerusalem. This would be done in…
If we suppose (as many do) that this refers to the great joy which there should be in Zion and Jerusalem when the army of the Assyrians was routed by an angel, or when the Jews were released out of…
Cambridge Bible
the face of the covering … nations More literally: the surface of the veil that veils all the peoples, and the covering that is woven over all the nations. The phrase "surface of the veil" is…
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