Verses 3-4
3, 4. The state of deliverance and rest expressed in the third verse is intensified by the contrast of exchanged positions between recovered Israel and the fallen oppressor, who poetically represents the whole series of the oppressors of Israel in that empire of the east, now crushed and ruined forever.
Thou shalt take up this proverb Rather, This song. The meaning is, Thou shall raise in a musical sense, including the ideas of commencement, utterance, and loudness. “Proverb,” ( mashal,) a word variously rendered; in Isaiah 24:3, a parable; in Ezekiel 12:23, a proverb; in Joel 2:17, a song of derision; in Ezekiel 17:2, a symbolical discourse, etc.; in Psalms 69:12, a by-word. Here the tenor of discourse requires its meaning to be a derisive song or discourse.
Golden city From מדהבה , ( madhebah,) a word formed in the manner of a Hiphil participle from זהב , ( zahab,) the first radical interchanged with its cognate ד , ( daleth,) and its own proper meaning, therefore, becomes gold maker, or gold exacter, all which terminates tropically in the feminine abstract idea of oppression: How hath oppressor and oppression ceased!
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