Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Behold, it is written before me - Their sin is registered in heaven, calling aloud for the punishment due to it.
I will - recompense into their bosom - The bosom is the place where the Asiatics have their pockets, and not in their skirts like the inhabitants of the west. Their loose flowing garments have scarcely any thing analogous to skirts.
Into their bosom - For al , ten MSS. and five editions have el . So again at the end of this verse, seventeen MSS. and four editions have al . - L.
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