Thy sons have swooned] lit. "were shrouded," a usual oriental metaphor (Amos 8:13; Jonah 4:8; Nahum 3:11). For the idea cf. Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 2:21. at the head of all the streets Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 4:1.

as a wild bullin a net R.V., rightly, as an antelope (Deuteronomy 14:5) in a net, exhausted by its vain struggles to get free.

they are fullof the fury &c. The children have drunk of the same cup as their mother.

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