Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 15:3
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Isaiah15:3
3. tops of ... houses--flat; places of resort for prayer, &c., in the East (Ac 10:9).
weeping abundantly--"melting away in tears." Horsley prefers "descending to weep." Thus there is a "parallelism by alternate construction" [Lowth], or chiasmus; "howl" refers to "tops of houses." "Descending to weep" to "streets" or squares, whither they descend from the housetops.
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