Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
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Gill's Exposition
Thy sons have fainted,.... Through want of food, or at the desolation made, and have no spirit in them to appear in the interest of true religion:
they lie at the head of all the streets; emaciated…
Barnes' Notes
Thy sons - Jerusalem is here represented as a mother. Her sons, that is, her inhabitants, had become weak and prostrate everywhere, and were unable to afford consolation. They lie at the head of all…
God, having awoke for the comfort of his people, here calls upon them to awake, as afterwards, Isa 52:1. It is a call to awake not so much out of the sleep of sin (though that also is necessary in…
Cambridge Bible
Thy sons have swooned] lit. "were shrouded," a usual oriental metaphor (Amo 8:13; Jon 4:8; Nah 3:11). For the idea cf. Lam 2:11; Lam 2:19; Lam 2:21. at the head of all the streets Lam 2:19; Lam…
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