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Thou shouldest not have looked with secret joy and satisfaction to thy eyes and mind; if thou wouldst have looked, it should have been with tears and grief, not with joy and gladness at the sight: so the word, Psa 37 Psa 44:7 Pro_29:16.
On the day; on the affliction and sad misery which fell upon thy brother Jacob; so day in Scripture, thus absolutely put, doth often signify, Psa_37:13 Mic_7:4.
Became a stranger; having by the misery of war been made a captive, and lost his former right and liberty in his own country, was now looked upon as a stranger, i.e. one who had no more right to any thing in the land.
Neither shouldest thou have rejoiced: this explains the former.
Children of Judah: this expounds brother.
The day of their destruction: this tells us what day meant.
Neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly, vaunting over the Jews, insolently upbraiding and reproaching them with virulent words and exulcerated malice,
in the day of distress, when Jerusalem was taken.