Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, said the LORD.
Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, said the LORD.
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
"Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says Yahweh.
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Be astonished, O ye heavens - Or, the heavens are astonished. The original will admit either sense. The conduct of this people was so altogether bad, that among all the iniquities of mankind, neither heaven nor earth had witnessed any thing so excessively sinful and profligate.
Be astonished - The King James Version uses this word as equivalent "to be stupefied."
Desolate - Or, "be dry." In horror at Israel's conduct the heavens shrivel and dry up.
2:12 O ye heavens - A pathetical expression, intimating that it is such a thing, that the very inanimate creatures, could they be sensible of it, would be astonished. Be desolate - Lose your brightness, as the sun seemed to do when Christ suffered.