Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about,.... The Targum renders it,
"a vessel full of inebriating liquor;''
which intoxicates and makes giddy, and causes…
Barnes' Notes
I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling - For encouragement, He promises the victory, and at first mentions the attack incidentally. Jerusalem is as a cup or basin, which its enemies take into their…
Adam Clarke
Jerusalem a cup of trembling - The Babylonians, who captivated and ruined the Jews, shall in their turn be ruined.
I incline to think that what is spoken in this chapter about the Jews and Jerusalem,…
Here is, I. The title of this charter of promises made to God's Israel; it is the burden of the word of the Lord, a divine prediction; it is of weight in the delivery of it; it is to be pressed upon…
Cambridge Bible
cup of trembling Rather, bowl of reeling. The word is used of the bowl or bason in which the blood of the Paschal lamb was caught, Exo 12:22, of the bowls used in the Temple service, 1Ki 7:50, and…
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