![]() ![]() The climax of their miseries is here added, that they should be so far from receiving consolation from men, that on every side their misery should meet with taunts and insults for nothing more bitterly wounds the wretched than this indignity of being harassed by reproaches and sarcasms and thus to be a laughing-stock and byword to all nations, is a dreadful infliction. “none but a Jew would have done such a thing.”įuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bibleģ7. To neighbouring nations, that shall hear of their overthrow and captivity, and that shall see the miserable condition they are brought into:Ī proverb and a byword among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee both for the wickedness committed by them, and for the ill usage of them by the nations among whom they should be, as they were in the Babylonish captivity see Jer 24:9 and now are, it being common to say, Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole BibleĪnd thou shall become an astonishment,…. And thou shalt become anastonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither theLord shall lead thee, &c.The annals of almost everynation, for eighteen hundred years, afford abundant proofs that thishas been, as it still is, the casethe very name of Jew being auniversally recognized term for extreme degradation and wretchedness. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Pooleģ7. the object of biting remarks.įuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and CollegesĪll other nations shall wonder to see such calamities befall such a people and when they would express any dreadful affliction in a proverbial way, they shall make use of thy example: they shall also sport themselves in thy miseries, and say, These are the people of the Lord, the only saints upon earth, &c. ![]()
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