10. Poetical form of expressing that, such were their sins, they
would be obliged by God's judgments to seek a hiding-place from His
wrath
(Re 6:15, 16).
dust--equivalent to "caves of the earth," or dust
(Isa 2:19).
for fear, &c.--literally, "from the face of the terror of the Lord."
JFB.
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