These are the words of the prophet in the name of the church, continued in an apostrophe or address to his and their enemy by whom may be meant, literally, the Chaldeans or Edomites, or both, who rejoiced at the destruction of Jerusalem, and the calamities the people of the Jews were brought into at it see ( Psalms 137:7 Psalms 137:8 ) ( Obadiah 1:12 ) spiritually, Satan the great enemy of mankind, and especially of the church and people of God, to whom it is a pleasure to draw them into any sin or snare, and to do them any hurt and mischief and also the Inert of the world, who hate and persecute the saints and watch for their haltings, and rejoice at their falls into sin, and at any calamity and affliction that may attend them, though there is no just reason for it since this will not always be the case of the saints, they will be in a better situation, and in more comfortable circumstances and it will be the turn of their enemies to be afflicted, punished, and tormented: when I fall, I shall arise
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