The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. 2 / Commonly Called the Minor

by George Adam Smith

And hath swept to himself all the nations,

And gathered to him all peoples.

Shall not these, all of them, take up a proverb

upon him,

And a taunt-song against him? and say:—

FIRST TAUNT-SONG (ii. 6b–8).

Woe unto him who multiplies what is not his own,

—How long?—

And loads him with debts![398]

Shall not thy creditors[399] rise up,