12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.



Ver. 12. And he sighed deeply] His heart was straitened (as the word áíáóôåíáîáò signifies) and would have burst, but for a vent.



" Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor."



So those marked mourners sighed and cried for others, who were altogether insensible of their own miseries, Eze_9:4. So Habakkuk trembled and quivered for the Chaldeans’ calamities, Hab_3:16.