Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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Gill's Exposition
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers,.... The curse of the earth, the spontaneous productions of it, being uncultivated, and this through want of men, they being destroyed or…
Barnes' Notes
Upon the land of my people - A description similar to this, in regard to the consequences of the invasion of Sennacherib, is given in Isa 7:20-25 (see the notes at that passage). Yea, upon all the…
In these verses we have God rising up to judgment against the vile persons, to punish them for their villainy; but at length returning in mercy to the liberal, to reward them for their liberality.
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Cambridge Bible
Upon the land … briers It is perhaps better to take this as continuing Isa 32:32, rendering thus: For the ( cultivated) land of my people, which goes up in thorns and briers (cf. ch. Isa 5:6); yea,…
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