The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
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Gill's Exposition
The earth mourneth and languisheth,.... All Christendom, being now under the power, dominion, and tyranny of antichrist, and the church's faithful witnesses slain, and a stop put to all Gospel…
Barnes' Notes
The earth mourneth - The land through which he has passed. For the sense of this phrase, see the note at Isa 24:4. Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down - For the situation of Lebanon, see the note at Isa…
Here we have,
I. The proud and false Assyrian justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence, and laid under a woe, Isa 33:1. Observe, 1. The sin which the enemy had been guilty of. He had…
Cambridge Bible
The earth mourneth and languisheth (cf. ch. Isa 24:4; Isa 24:7) in sympathy with the distress of God's people. It is the language of poetry. The "earth" is neither the whole world, nor merely the land…
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