Verse 19
19. Awake—Arise to my help.
it shall teach!—rather, An exclamation of the prophet, implying an ironical question to which a negative answer must be given. What! "It teach?" Certainly not [MAURER]. Or, "It (the idol itself) shall (that is, ought to) teach you that it is deaf, and therefore no God" [CALVIN]. Compare "they are their own witnesses" ( :-).
Behold—The Hebrew is nominative, "There it is" [HENDERSON].
it is laid over with gold . . . no breath . . . in the midst—Outside it has some splendor, within none.
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