Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(Isaiah 47:6).
grown fat—and so, skip wantonly.
at grass—fat and frisky. But there is a disagreement of gender in Hebrew reading thus. The Keri is better: "a heifer threshing"; the strongest were used for threshing, and as the law did not allow their mouth to be muzzled in threshing (Deuteronomy 25:4), they waxed wanton with eating.
bellow as bulls—rather, "neigh as steeds," literally, "strong ones," a poetical expression for steeds (see on Jeremiah 8:16) [MAURER].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 50:11:
Habakkuk 1:8
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