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They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Blasphemy. The enemy insults over us ( Calmet.) and over God. Bible.—Birth. Hebrew “the mouth of the womb.” Vatab.—This comparison shews the utmost distress to which the people of Jerusalem were reduced. Any great anguish is denoted by a woman in travail. Deuteronomy 2:25. Psalms 47:7. Homer (Iliad A) thus describes the uneasiness of Agamemnon. Calmet.—Ezechias found himself unable to contend with the Assyrian, though he wished to do it. Menochius.—Without courage, all hope of escaping is lost. D.
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