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Shall not? the prediction is moulded thus in a question, to give it emphasis, and make it more affective.
All these, who have been oppressed, contumeliously used, and perfidiously deceived; all the people who have feared the power and policy of Babylon.
Take up a parable; turn him and his state into a by-word and scorn.
Against him; the king of Babylon, awhile since the terror, now the scorn of nations.
Taunting; short, but smart, wounding scoffs; and whereas men usually bewail and condole the mishaps of great, brave, and just kings or kingdoms, all people shall exult and triumph in the miseries of this oppressive, luxurious, and base kingdom.
Woe! either it is a threat of like vengeance on all such transgressors, or it may be a publishing the miseries come upon Babylon.
To him that increaseth; by rapine, frauds, and injurious dealings multiplieth his treasures, as the king of Babylon did.
Not his; it was not his though he had it; it was not his right though it was in his possession. Or else thus, one misery of the Babylonians shall be, they increase wealth, but not for themselves, but for the Medes and Persians.
How long? this seems to be the sigh of the oppressed, who think it long ere the oppressor fall.
To him that ladeth himself; woe to him that is a burden to others, while he burdens himself with amassed treasures gathered by extortion and grievous, unjust taxes!
With thick clay; gold and silver, so called to lower the over-value of them, and perhaps to mind the tyrant of a clay-bed.