In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood,.... As a large hearth of fire, with wood all about it, devours and consumes it; so shall the governors of Judah be to the nations that shall come up against Jerusalem.
The Targum renders it,"as a garment of fire among wood:''and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; of wheat, which presently destroys it; see Ob 1:18:and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left; on the south and on the north, as the Targum interprets it.