23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
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And the wounded - חלל chalal, the soldiery. All its supports shall be taken away, and its defenders destroyed.
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her (m) by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
(m) That is Nebuchadnezzar.
And I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets,.... The plague and the sword, which are two of God's sore judgments, and often go together; the pestilence slays them that are within, and the sword those the enemy meets with in the streets:
and the wounded shall be judged; that is, punished; or "shall fall" (w), die and perish:
in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; this was literally fulfilled in Zidon, either by Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldean army, which besieged it on every side; or by Artaxerxes Ochus the Persian, who took it, and destroyed it; and will have its accomplishment on the antichristian states, eastern and western, when the vials shall be poured out upon them, Revelation 16:1,
and they shall know that I am the Lord God; who am able to foretell things to come, and to accomplish them.
(w) Sept.; "corruent", Pagninus, Vatablus; "cadet", Montanus; so Kimchi and Ben Melech; and which is approved of by Gussetius.
And blood - Bloody war by an enemy, that shall bring the war to the gates, nay into the streets of Zidon. Judged - Be punished in the midst of the city. The sword - By the sword of her enemies.
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