Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Gird sackcloth - sak , sackcloth, a word necessary to the sense, is here lost, but preserved by the Septuagint, MSS. Alex. and Pachom., and 1. D. II., and edit. Ald. and Comp., and the Arabic and Syriac.
Tremble - be troubled - strip you - peshotah , regazah , etc. These are infinitives, with a paragogic he , according to Schultens, Institut. Ling. Hebr. p. 453, and are to be taken in an imperative sense.
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