Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
sling out—expressing the violence and suddenness of the removal to Babylon. A similar image occurs in Jeremiah 16:13; I Samuel 25:29; Isaiah 22:17-18.
at this once—at this time, now.
find it so—find it by experience, that is, feel it (Ezekiel 6:10). MICHAELIS translates, "I will bind them together (as in a sling) that they may reach the goal" (Babylon). English Version is best: "that they may find it so as I have said" (Numbers 23:19; Ezekiel 6:10).
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