Therefore shall her plagues come... — Read, For this cause in one day shall come her plagues, death and mourning... and with fire shall she be burnt, for strong is the Lord God who judged her. God, the mighty God, has passed sentence. She thought herself strong; she forgot the strength of the Almighty. Her plagues are four-fold, as though from every quarter her trouble came: “death for her scorn of the prospect of widowhood; mourning, for her inordinate revelling; famine, for her abundance;” and fire, the punishment of her fornication (Leviticus 20:14; Leviticus 21:9). (Comp. the series of contrasts in Isaiah 3:24.)

THE LAMENT OF THE KINGS (Revelation 18:9). — (Their words of lament are given in Revelation 18:10.)

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