Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee - This is similar to the second verse; but there is a paronomasia, or play upon letters and words, which is worthy of note. kets ba , ba hakkets , hekits elayich . katsah signifies to make an end or extremity, by cutting off something, and yakats signifies to awake from sleep: hence kits , the summer, as the earth and its productions seem then to awake from the sleep of winter. The end or final destruction is here personified; and represented as an executioner who has arisen early from his sleep, and is waiting for his orders to execute judgment upon these offenders. Hence it is said: -
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