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John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 5:9
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In mine ears, [said] the Lord of hosts, &c.] This may be understood either of the ears of the Lord of hosts, into which came the cry of the sins of covetousness and ambition before mentioned; these were taken notice of by the Lord, and he was determined to punish them; or of the ears of the prophet, in whose hearing the Lord said what follows: so the Targum, “the prophet said, with mine ears I have heard, when this was decreed from before the Lord of hosts:” of a truth many houses shall be desolate; or “great” onesf97; such as the houses of the king, of the princes, and nobles, judges, counsellors, and great men of the earth; not only the house of God, the temple, but a multitude of houses in Jerusalem and elsewhere; which was true not only at the taking of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, but at the destruction of it by the Romans, to which this prophecy belongs, (<402338>Matthew 23:38) the words are a strong asseveration, and in the form of an oath, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe; al µa, “if not”; if many houses are not left desolate, let it be so or so, I swear they shall: [even] great and fair, without inhabitants: houses of large and beautiful building shall be laid in such a ruinous condition, that they will not be fit for any to dwell in, nor shall any dwell in them: and this is the judgment upon them for joining house to house; that for laying field to field follows.
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