Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.
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Gill's Exposition
Shout against her round about,.... As soldiers do when they make an assault upon a place, to encourage one another, and dismay the besieged; just as the Israelites did when they surrounded Jericho:…
Barnes' Notes
Shout - i. e., spoken of the war-cry. So in Isa 42:13, where God is compared to a warrior, it is said He shall shout (the King James Version cry), i. e., raise the war-cry. Site hath given her hand -…
God is here by his prophet, as afterwards in his providence, proceeding in his controversy with Babylon. Observe,
I. The commission and charge given to the instruments that were to be employed in…
Cambridge Bible
submitted herself lit. as mg. given her hand. Cp. Gen 24:2; Gen 47:29; 2Ki 10:15; 1Ch 29:24 (mg.); 2Ch 30:8 (mg.); Ezr 10:19; Lam 5:6. Cp. also the Latin manus dare.
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