8. Their disappointment in the very height of their confident
expectation of taking Jerusalem shall be as great as that of the hungry
man who in a dream fancies he eats, but awakes to hunger still
(Ps 73:20);
their dream shall be dissipated on the fatal morning
(Isa 37:36).
soul--simply his appetite: he is still thirsty.
JFB.
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