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Jer_2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Ver. 12. Be astonished, O heavens!] A poetic and pathetic expression. Compare Deu_32:1 Isa_1:2.
Be horribly afraid.] Horripilamini portento malitiae, quod iam dicturus sum; be aghast at such a prodigious wickedness.
Be very desolate.] As the sun seemed to be, when at the death of Christ he hid his head in a mantle of black, which made, they say, {a} the heathen astrologer break out into these words, Either the God of nature suffereth, or else the world is at an end.
{a} Dionys.