Isaiah 29:4
Douay-Rheims
Thou shalt be brought down, thou shalt speak out of the earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the python, and out of the ground thy speech shall mutter.
Ibn Ezra
And thou shalt be brought down. This applies to the words of Hezekiah’s messengers to Rabshakeh. Thou shalt speak out of the ground. Thou shalt speak so, as if the voice came from the depth of the earth. כאב As a potter. Comp. כאבת as bottles.—The potter, because of his vocation, speaks from below.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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