3. corrupt, &c.--literally, "rebuke," answering to the opposite
prophecy of blessing
(Mal 3:11),
"I will rebuke the devourer." To rebuke the seed is to forbid
its growing.
your--literally, "for you"; that is, to your hurt.
dung of . . . solemn feasts--The dung in the maw of
the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of
the priests
(De 18:3),
which gives peculiar point to the threat here. You shall get the dung
of the maw as your perquisite, instead of the maw.
one shall take you away with it--that is, ye shall be taken away with
it; it shall cleave to you wherever ye go
[MOORE]. Dung shall be thrown
on your faces, and ye shall be taken away as dung would be,
dung-begrimed as ye shall be
(1Ki 14:10;
compare
Jer 16:4; 22:19).
JFB.
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