A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
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Gill's Exposition
A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up,.... Either on the waters of the land of Chaldea in general, from whence should follow barrenness, and so a want of the necessaries of life;…
Barnes' Notes
A drought - Rather, “a sword,” i. e., military skill and forethought. They are mad upon their idols - Omit their. The word for idols, literally terrors Psa 88:16 is used in this one place only of…
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Cambridge Bible
A drought The Heb. words for droughtand sword(differing by one vowel only, ḥôreb, ḥereb) are sufficiently alike to make it quite possible that here as at the beginning of the two previous verses the…
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