There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
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Gill's Exposition
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds,.... Which may be understood either of the civil rulers among the Jews, who now lose their honour and their riches; and so the Targum, Jarchi, and Aben…
Barnes' Notes
A voice of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled - It echoes on from Jeremiah before the captivity, “Howl, ye shepherds - A voice of the cry of the shepherds. and an howling of the…
Adam Clarke
Young lions - Princes and rulers. By shepherds, kings or priests may be intended.
In dark and figurative expressions, as is usual in the scripture predictions of things at a great distance, that destruction of Jerusalem and of the Jewish church and nation is here foretold which our…
Cambridge Bible
There is a voice More literally and forcibly, A voice of the howling of the shepherds!R. V.
the shepherds Here again the figurative reference appears through the literal, Comp. Zec 10:3, and Zec 11:5…
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