Therefore; as a punishment for other sins, so for this secure, atheistical denial of Providence; though they have denied, they shall feel, and confess, that the evil they suffer is both just, and from my hand too.
Their goods; stores in their shops and warehouses, furniture in their chambers, and wardrobes.
A booty; a prey divided among the Babylonish soldiers, invading, prevailing, wasting villages and cities.
Their houses a desolation; that they may remember the curse threatened in the law, executed on them, and acknowledge that he who gave the law rules by it.
Build houses, but not inhabit them, & c.; according to that Deu_28:30,39.