Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 29:8
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Isaiah29:8
8. Their disappointment in the very height of their confident expectation of taking Jerusalem shall be as great as that of the hungry man who in a dream fancies he eats, but awakes to hunger still (Psa 73:20); their dream shall be dissipated on the fatal morning (Is 37:36).
soul--simply his appetite: he is still thirsty.
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