Verse 16
16. Appoint over you This is the very verb used to indicate that Potiphar made Joseph overseer in his house. Genesis 39:5. They who throw off allegiance to Jehovah will fall under the dominion of the ministers of his vengeance who, as the satraps of the rejected king, shall rule these rebels with the utmost rigour till they sue for pardon and peace.
Terror Appalling fear, ever present by day and by night a state of the utmost insecurity and alarm, of which the subjects of a stable and strong government in time of peace have no conception.
Consumption Emaciation naturally results from terror. Many a culprit, carrying a guilty secret in his bosom, has been wasted to a skeleton.
The burning ague Rather, the burning of fever. See R.V. When a tide of fire courses through the veins, the helpless victim realizes that he is under the rod of Omnipotence.
Consume the eyes The eye is the organ of grief. When sunken, it indicates extreme and long-continued suffering.
Sorrow of heart Causing the soul to grieve. The entire being, soul and body, shall be the vehicle of anguish.
Ye shall sow… in vain The insecurity of the people in some portions of the Holy Land, especially east of the Jordan, even now destroys the motive to activity in agriculture and turns the fertile plains into a desert.
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