And I: For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people. they shall throw: Eze 16:24, Eze 16:25, Eze 16:31, Eze 7:22-24, Isa 27:9 shall strip: Eze 16:10-20, Eze 23:26, Eze 23:29, Isa 3:16-24, Hos 2:3, Hos 2:9-13 thy fair jewels: Heb. instruments of thine ornament Reciprocal: Jer 17:3 - and thy Eze 6:6 - and the