Upon the land … briers It is perhaps better to take this as continuing Isaiah 32:12, rendering thus: For the ( cultivated) land of my people, which goes up in thorns and briers (cf. ch. Isaiah 5:6); yea, for all, &c. (The verb "goes up" is fem. and must have as its subj. the fem "land"; "thorns" and "briers" are masc.)

the joyous city (see on ch. Isaiah 22:2) may be a genitive depending on "houses," or may be a parallel phrase, governed by "for."

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