11. Slay them not, &c.] Do not utterly destroy them, lest my countrymen lose the remembrance of it: but let them remain a just monument of thine anger. Travell.
14. — like a dog, &c.] Dogs are found in great numbers in the cities of the East, and crowd the streets. They do not appear to belong to any particular persons, as our dogs do, nor to be fed distinctly by such as might claim some interest in them, but get their food as they can. Harmer.