These foes of Israel are of the same stock morally (can one produce grapes of thistles?) as the cities whose destruction for their wickedness was proverbial. They are therefore doomed.

fields Heb. sedemôth, a rare word of uncertain meaning. Tractsis probably nearer it. It may have been chosen here for its assonance to Sedomin the previous line.

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