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Turned not back, to wit, without effect: compare Isa_45:23 55:2. Their arrows shot from their bows, and their swords, did seldom miss, and commonly pierced fat, and flesh, and blood, and reached even to the heart and bowels.
Empty, i.e. not filled and glutted with blood: for the sword is metaphorically said to have a mouth, which we translate an edge; and to devour, 2Sa_2:26 11:25 Jer_2:30 46:10. And this their former successfulness is here mentioned as an aggravation of their last infelicity.