The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls : because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
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Gill's Exposition
This people have I formed for myself,.... The Gentiles, compared to a desert and wilderness, wild and uncultivated, distinguished from Jacob and Israel in the next verse, and the same with the chosen…
Barnes' Notes
The beast of the field shall honor me - The sense of this passage is plain, and the image is highly poetical and beautiful. God would pour such copious floods of waters through the waste sandy deserts…
To so low an ebb were the faith and hope of God's people in Babylon brought that there needed line upon line to assure them that they should be released out of their captivity; and therefore, that…
Cambridge Bible
Even the wild beasts shall honour Jehovah, unconsciously, through their joy at the abundant supply of water.
the dragons and the owls Render as R.V. the jackals and the ostriches. see on ch. Isa…
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