Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Bittern and the urchin. Hebrew kaath and kippod, are terms to us ( Bible.) unknown.—Threshold. Hebrew “the pomegranates,” supposed to be an ornament of the doors.—Raven. Septuagint also read arb better than choreb, “the desolation or the sword.” See Isaiah 34:11. Calmet.—Chereb has both meanings, “a raven, or sword.” Saint Jerome—I will. Hebrew “he has uncovered her cedar,” ( Calmet.) her fine palaces and apartments. Septuagint “for the cedar is its height, (or pride) this is the city given to evils, that,” and so forth Bible.