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Now, i.e. ere long, the time is near at hand. Many nations; many for number and great for name, mighty in power, all that were at that time confederate with or feudatory to Sennacherib king of Assyria, or else to the king of Babylon.
Are gathered against thee; the present tense for the future, in the prophetic style, to express the certainly and the nearness of the judgment; they will all of them assemble and come up against Judah and Jerusalem, as Sennacherib did when he besieged Jerusalem, or as Nebuchadnezzar did when he took it.
That say; propose it as their design, hope for it as their end, and boast of it as easy.
Let her be defiled; let us use her contemptuously, tread her under foot as a common and polluted thing, let us destroy her with such spite and scorn as a defiled thing deserveth: so the phrase 2Ki_23:8: let her be polluted with blood, and without respect to her former holiness let us enter, sack, and destroy her temple and palaces.
Let our eye look, delighting ourselves in the ruin; let us feed our envious, revengeful eye.
Upon Zion; upon Jerusalem, the royal palace, and the sacred temple, buried in their own rubbish.