Verse 14
14. In this verse the second person thee, indicating direct address to Babylon, seems to be resumed from the thy of Revelation 18:10, having been interrupted by the list of merchandise in the intervening verses.
Fruits that thy soul lusted after Literal Greek, the harvest of the desire of thy soul. An harvest probably does not refer to fruits, but means the ingathering of all the above enumerated luxuries.
Dainty Radically means, fat, and is so rendered by Alford, and would then seem to refer to animal foods. But more probably the secondary meaning, derived from the smoothness of a fat surface, is glossy or varnished, and is here applied to furniture. Dainty and goodly may be rendered glossy and glittering; and that, indeed, would preserve the alliteration really existing in the Greek words.
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