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Ezekiel 31:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Shall be comforted, etc. The Dante-like imagination of the prophet points the contrasts between the impression made by the fall of Assyria on the nations that yet survived, and on those that had already perished.

The former mourn and shako with fear, for it is a warning to them that their turn also may come. On the other hand, the tress of Eden—the great monarchies that are already in Sheol—shall he "comforted" with the thought that yet another kingdom mightier than they has fallen as they fell (comp.

Isaiah 14:4-20; Ezekiel 32:17-32, where the thought is elaborately expanded).

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