Verse 8
Gird you with sackcloth; the usual habit of mourners, especially in those days, Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 6:26; it is a calling upon them to repent.
Lament and howl: probably these expressions do import the several ways that men have to set forth their bitter complaints and sorrows of the mind, both by the gestures of the body, Jeremiah 2:37; Luke 18:13, and expressions of the tongue, Psalms 32:3; Isaiah 59:11.
Is not turned back from us; neither will it, until it have accomplished its ends, Jeremiah 30:24.
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