he hath stretched out a line] Over Jerusalem the line of destruction; as workmen mark with a line what is to be cut off, or hewn down: Or, to level the ground by, where before it stood, and to lay it all even: 2 Kings 21:13. Isaiah 34:11. hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying] Heb. from swallowing up. Vers. 2. 5. he made the rampart and the wall to lament] So great is the calamity, that the very senslesse creatures may seem sensible of it: Jeremiah 4:28. Or, they have a very lamentable aspect, and such as may well move to lamentation, Chap. 1. 4.