23  But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, ^cBow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

  10  We are to understand that the scattered remnants are exhorted to return to the Lord from whence they have fallen; which if they do, the promise of the Lord is that he will speak to them, or give them revelation. See the 6th, 7th, and 8th verses. The bands of ^dher neck are the curses of God upon her, or the remnants of Israel in their scattered condition among the Gentiles.

  14  The ^acaptive exile hasteneth, that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.