[1] Barnes, Birks, Henderson, Kay, Strahey, and the _Revised
English Bible,_ translate this clause substantially as it
is in the A. V.:--_e.g., Henderson,_ "Why, when I expected
it to produce grapes did it produce bad grapes?"
[2] Henderson's translation of this paragraph is especially
vigorous and beautiful:--
13. Therefore My people are led captive at unaware
Their nobility are starvelings,
And their multitude are parched with thirst.
14. Therefore Sheol enlarges her appetite,
And gapes immeasurably with her mouth;
And down go her nobility and her multitude.
Her noisy throng, and whoever in her that exultest.
15. The man of mean condition is bowed down,
And the man of rank is brought low;
And the eyes of the haughty are humbled.
16. But Jehovah of hosts is exalted through justice,
And the Holy God is sanctified through righteousness.
17. The lambs shall feed wherever they are driven,
And the waste fields of the rich, strange flocks
shall consume.
[3] And one shall look to the earth,
And lo! darkness! trouble!
And the light is obscured by the gloomy clouds.--_Barnes._
And one shall look unto the earth, _and, behold, darkness;_
even the light is an adversary (or, is anguish); dark is it
amidst the clouds thereof.--_Kay._