7:23 Make a {s} chain: for the land is full of {t} bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
(s) Signifying that they would be bound and led away captives.
(t) That is, of sins that deserve death.
7:23 A chain - To bind the captives.
7:23-27 Whoever break the bands of God's law, will find themselves bound and held by the chains of his judgments. Since they encouraged one another to sin, God would dishearten them. All must needs be in trouble, when God comes to judge them according to their deserts. May the Lord enable us to seek that good part which shall not be taken away.
