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Yet; yet before this glorious promise concerning the removal of Israel’s sin and calamity be fulfilled, a dreadful and desolating judgment shall first come upon them.
The defenced city; Jerusalem, and the rest of the defenced cities in the land, the singular number being put for the plural.
The habitation; the most inhabited and populous places. Or, as the Hebrew word properly signifies, their pleasant habitations, whether in the city or country.
Forsaken and left like a wilderness; which was fulfilled in the time of the Babylonish captivity.
The calf; which is synecdochically put for all sorts of cattle, which may securely feed there, because there shall be no men left to disturb or annoy them.
The branches thereof; of their pleasant habitation; of the young trees which shall grow up in that ruinated country.