:and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away; as a leaf falling from the tree is carried away with the wind, which it is not able to withstand; so formal and carnal professors are carried away, through their sins, with the wind of persecution, and apostatize: or rather for their sins the Jews were carried captive, as before, to Babylon; so now by the Romans into various countries, where they are dispersed at this day; to which this passage may have some respect.
"Iniquities" are put for the punishment of them; so the Targum,"and, because of our sins, as the wind we are taken away.'' yhg "fuimus", V. L. Montanus. amjk "ut immundus", V. L. Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "tanquam impuruss", Cocceius, Vitringa, Myde rgbk "ut vestimentum menstruatum, sive menstruatae", Drusius; a ade "removit", so V.
L. Syr. and Ar. "ut vestis remotionum", Cocceius. "Vestes praedae", Forerius; a de "praeda", Gen. xlix. 27. Pittacium, Grotius. So Kimchi, whose interpretation and sense of the word is preferred by Gussetius, Ebr.
Comment. p. 581. Smegma Orientale, I. 1. c. 7. p. 181. lbnw "et decidimus", V. L.