You will go out at the breaks in the wall, Everyone straight before her; And you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.
The word however rendered, “to the palace,” occurring only here, is obscure. The other most probable conjecture is, that it is a name of a country, “the mountains of Monah,” that is, perhaps Armenia. This would describe accurately enough the country to which they were to be carried; “beyond Damascus; the cities of the Medes.” The main sense is the same. They should be cast forth from the scene of their pleasures and oppression, to be themselves oppressed. The whole image is one, which an inspired prophet alone could use. The reproof was not from man, but from God, unveiling their sins to them in their true hideousness. Man thinks nothing of being more degraded than the brutes, so that he can hide from himself, that he is so.