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Behold: God calls her to consider what heavy judgment he pronounceth and will execute.
Gather whole herds and droves, for the word implieth such a gathering together.
All thy lovers; Chaldeans, Assyrians, Egyptians. Pleasure; unlawful pleasures of body, commerce, and idolatrous feasts in their idolatrous sacrifices. Old pretended friends, now turned into vehement enemies; and old enemies, who have earnestly longed for such an opportunity to vent their malice; their hatred will heap on thee mischiefs, under which real friendship might somewhat relieve, but counterfeited friendship never will; thou shalt not have a friend to pity or help thee.
Them that thou hast hated; so shall my threats be fulfilled, Lev_26:17, when I give thee up into their hands, who remember thy hatred against them, and renew the old hatred they had against thee.
I will even gather them; it shall be very certain, and my hand, saith God, shall be seen doing it, I will do this. Round about; all the nations that are on every side, that there may be numbers enough to do this, and that there may be no escape for thee, when, which way soever thou fleest, still thou fleest into the mouth of thy enemies, and who hate thee.
Discover thy nakedness; lay open to view all thy shameless doings; thou didst discover thy nakedness to allure, and then to satisfy thy prodigious lust; now it shall be discovered to nauseate them, and to provoke them to contemn thee, and to use thee as so vile a person deserveth. So God retaliateth, and punisheth sinners, that their sin may be seen in the punishment.
May see, with upbraiding, scorning, and hating of it and them.
All thy nakedness; the odiousness of thy sinful courses, and the weakness of thy state.