And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
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Gill's Exposition
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord,.... Or four families (x), and these very devouring ones; that is, four sorts of punishment; and so the Targum,
"four evil punishments;''…
Barnes' Notes
Kinds - literally, as the margin, i. e., classes of things. The first is to destroy the living, the other three to mutilate and consume the dead. To tear - literally, “to drag along the ground.” It…
We scarcely find any where more pathetic expressions of divine wrath against a provoking people than we have here in these verses. The prophet had prayed earnestly for them, and found some among them…
Cambridge Bible
kinds lit. as mg. families. Four sorts of destructive agencies. Similar threats occur chs. Jer 19:7; Jer 34:20.
tear lit. as mg. drag.
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