that it may glitter] That it may terrifie and affright with the brightnesse of it. should we then make mirth] Can one do any thing but lament, as I do? it contemneth the rod of my sonne, as every tree] Or, it is the rod of my sonne, it despiseth every tree. Heb. the rod of my sonne contemning every tree. That is, the sword is the rod appointed by me to chastise my people, which is deare to me as a sonne, and being hardened cannot be broken when I use it to strike the rest of the people. Others, Thou nation hardened against all fatherly punishments, as an evill child is against a rod, thou shalt now be punished by the sword. In the Hebrew Text, there is an allusion between a rod or staffe, and tribe: the meaning whereof is, whilest thine afflictions are moderate, as from rod to rod, thou doest contemne them: but this shall be as from rod to sword, which thou shalt not be able to endure nor withstand.