in the twelfth: Nearly answering to our 25th of April, am 3442.
king of Babylon: Pro 21:1
lifted up: This phrase is founded on the observation that those in sorrow hold down their heads; and, when comforted, or the cause of their sorrow removed, they lift up their heads. Gen 40:13, Gen 40:20; Job 22:29; Psa 3:3, Psa 27:6