Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

The wickedness of the enemy. God calls His people to vengeance, as to a ripe harvest and Tintage.

for many ages. St. Jerome, however, insists on a higher meaning: "That Judea which we behold deserted, is not surely that which shall he inhabited forever : nor that Jerusalem, whose ruins we see : but that Judea, whose children exulted and rejoiced in all the Judgments of the Lord."