Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven "For my sword is made bare in the heavens" - There seems to be some impropriety in this, according to the present reading: "My sword is made drunken, or is bathed in the heavens; "which forestalls, and expresses not in its proper place, what belongs to the next verse: for the sword of Jehovah was not to be bathed or glutted with blood in the heavens, but in Botsra and the land of Edom. In the heavens it was only prepared for slaughter. To remedy this, Archbishop Secker proposes to read, for bashshamayim , bedamim ; referring to Jeremiah 46:10. But even this is premature, and not in its proper place. The Chaldee, for rivvethah , has tithgalli , shall be revealed or disclosed: perhaps he read teraeh or nirathah . Whatever reading, different I presume from the present, he might find in his copy, I follow the sense which he has given of it.
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