Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
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Gill's Exposition
Then shalt thou say in thine heart,.... In, a way of admiration, secretly within herself, astonished at the numerous crowds flocking in;
who hath begotten me these? not their natural parents, nor…
Barnes' Notes
Then shalt thou say in thine heart - Thou shalt wonder at the multitude, and shalt ask with astonishment from where they all come. This verse is designed to describe the great increase of the true…
Two things are here promised, which were to be in part accomplished in the reviving of the Jewish church after its return out of captivity, but more fully in the planting of the Christian church by…
Cambridge Bible
Zion is bewildered at finding herself once more "a joyful mother of children" (Psa 113:9).
Who hath begotten Rather, Who hath borne (in spite of the masculine gender of the verb). The peculiar figure…
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