49:25 How is the {a} city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
(a) He speaks this in the person of the king and of them of the country who will wonder to see Damascus the chief city destroyed.
49:25 Of my joy - A city of great renown. The king of Syria is here supposed to speak.
49:23-27 How easily God can dispirit those nations that have been most celebrated for valour! Damascus waxes feeble. It was a city of joy, having all the delights of the sons of men. But those deceive themselves who place their happiness in carnal joys.
