Fools: This is the third comparison; the captives being compared to persons in a dangerous malady, as the consequences of their own sins. Psa 14:1, Psa 92:6; Pro 1:22, Pro 7:7, Pro 7:22
because: Psa 38:1-8; Num 11:33-34, Num 12:10-13, Num 21:5-9; Isa 57:17-18; Jer 2:19; Lam 3:39