10. Language: literally, applying to the return from Babylon;
figuratively and more fully to the completed redemption of both literal
and spiritual Israel.
joy upon . . . heads--
(Ps 126:2).
Joy manifested in their countenances. Some fancy an allusion to the
custom of pouring oil "upon the head," or wearing chaplets in times of
public festivity
(Ec 9:8).
JFB.
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