Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Our bones are dried-- (Psalms 141:7), explained by "our hope is lost" (Isaiah 49:14); our national state is as hopeless of resuscitation, as marrowless bones are of reanimation.
cut off for our parts--that is, so far as we are concerned. There is nothing in us to give hope, like a withered branch "cut off" from a tree, or a limb from the body.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 26:19
Ezekiel 33:10
Ezekiel 36:38
Ezekiel 37:12
Hosea 6:2
Zechariah 9:12
John 3:8
Revelation 11:11
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