But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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Gill's Exposition
And I will put it into the hand of them that afflict me,.... As the Lord did to literal Babylon, Jer 25:15, so will he do to mystical Babylon; he will retaliate upon her all the evils she has done to…
Barnes' Notes
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee - The nations that have made war upon thee, and that have reduced thee to bondage, particularly the Babylonians. The calamities which the Jews…
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
them that afflict thee thy tormentors. The word occurs three times in the Lamentations (Lam 1:5; Lam 1:12; Lam 3:32).
to thy soul i.e. "to thyself," although without special emphasis (cf. Psa 3:2; Psa…
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