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The LORD, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
Verse 1. Amen. He approves of God’s judgments ( Bible.) against Jerusalem. Worthington.
For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
Verse 2. City; Jerusalem, or rather Babylon, (Calmet. 21. Calmet.) or every city ( Bible.) in the world. Menochius.—Strangers: the temples of idols.
Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
Verse 3. People; the Chaldees, or their conquerors.
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
Verse 4. Poor; Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor’s fury could not exterminate.
As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
Verse 5. Away. Cyrus ( Calmet.) shall reduce Babylon the great. Bible.
In this mountain, the LORD of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Verse 6. Mountain of Sion, a figure of the Church, and of heaven. The Jews shall feast: yea, some of all nations shall partake of the blessed Eucharist, and obtain heaven. The expressions are too grand for a corruptible feast. Calmet.—Wine. Lit. “of vintage,” ( Bible.) on which occasion great rejoicings were made. Hesiod. Hercul. 297.—Prot. “of wines on the lees.” Bible.—In the East, the wines were very thick. Psalms 75:9. Calmet.—On the rejection of the Jews, the Gentiles were converted. Worthington.
literally, fat things
He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
Verse 7. Tied. He will open their eyes to the truth of the gospel. They shall be no longer as criminals, expecting death, or mourning.
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it.
Verse 8. Ever. Hebrew “he shall swallow up death in victory.” 1 Corinthians 15:54. Christ, by dying, conquered death, and rescued us from its power, if we do not voluntarily subject ourselves to it again. This was faintly represented by the liberation of the captives.
It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
For the LORD’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
Verse 10. Mountain: the Church. Calmet.—Moab. That is, the reprobate, whose eternal punishment, from which they can no way escape, is described under these figures. Challoner.—The Machabees probably executed this vengeance on Moab. 1 Maccabees 5:6.
He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
Verse 11. Hands. All his exertions and fury will prove useless. Bible.—Moab shall lie prostrate.
He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.