And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

Ver. 12. And he sighed deeply] His heart was straitened (as the word αναστεναξας signifies) and would have burst, but for a vent.

" Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor. "

So those marked mourners sighed and cried for others, who were altogether insensible of their own miseries, Ezekiel 9:4. So Habakkuk trembled and quivered for the Chaldeans' calamities, Habakkuk 3:16 .

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