Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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Gill's Exposition
Thy holy cities are a wilderness,.... Meaning either Zion, the city of David, and Jerusalem; the one called the upper, the other the lower city; now uninhabited, and a mere wilderness: or else the…
Barnes' Notes
Thy holy cities are a wilderness - It is to be remembered that this is supposed to be spoken near the close of the exile in Babylon. In accordance with the usual custom in this book, Isaiah throws…
As we have the Lamentations of Jeremiah, so here we have the Lamentations of Isaiah; the subject of both is the same - the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and the sin of Israel that brought…
The evidences of Jehovah's displeasure are to be seen on every hand, in the desolation and ruin of the sacred places.
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