Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 15:3
tops of . . . houses—flat; places of resort for prayer, etc., in the East (Acts 10:9).
weeping abundantly—"melting away in tears." HORSLEY prefers "descending to weep." Thus there is a "parallelism by alternate construction" [LOWTH], or chiasmus; "howl" refers to "tops of houses." "Descending to weep" to "streets" or squares, whither they descend from the housetops.
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Isaiah 15:1
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