9. strengtheneth the spoiled--literally, "spoil" or
"devastation": hence the "person spoiled." WINER,
MAURER, and the best modern critics translate,
"maketh devastation (or destruction) suddenly to
arise," literally, "maketh it to gleam forth like the dawn."
Ancient versions support English Version. The Hebrew is
elsewhere used, to make, to shine, to make glad: and as
English Version here
(Ps 39:13),
"recover strength."
the spoiled shall come--"devastation," or "destruction shall come
upon" [MAURER].
English Version expresses that, strong as Israel
fancies herself after the successes of Jeroboam II
(2Ki 14:25),
even the weakest can be made by God to prevail against the strong.
JFB.
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