John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 19:5
Now when she saw ,.... That is, his mother, as the Syriac version expresses it; not his natural mother; as the mother of Sisera looked out and waited for him; but the congregation of Israel, as Jarchi interprets it, the body of the Jewish people: that she had waited ; for the return of Jehoahaz out of Egypt, which was expected for some time: or, "that she was become sick"; or "weak" F23 כי נוחלה "quod infirmatus esset", Cocceius, Starckius. , and feeble, and brought to a low... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 19:1-9
Here are, I. Orders given to the prophet to bewail the fall of the royal family, which had long made so great a figure by virtue of a covenant of royalty made with David and his seed, so that the eclipsing and extinguishing of it are justly lamented by all who know what value to put upon the covenant of our God, as we find, after a very large account of that covenant with David (Ps. 89:3, 20), a sad lamentation for the decays and desolations of his family (v. 38, 39): But thou hast cast off... read more