Jeremiah 2:12

Jer 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

Ver. 12. Be astonished, O heavens! ] A poetic and pathetic expression. Compare Deu 32:1 Isaiah 1:2 .

Be horribly afraid. ] Horripilamini portento malitiae, quod iam dicturus sum; be aghast at such a prodigious wickedness.

Be very desolate. ] As the sun seemed to be, when at the death of Christ he hid his head in a mantle of black, which made, they say, a the heathen astrologer break out into these words, Either the God of nature suffereth, or else the world is at an end.

a Dionys.