Therefore shall the land mourn
Because of the calamities on it, the devastations made in it;
nothing growing upon it, through a violent drought; or the grass
and corn being trodden down, or eaten up, by a foreign army:
and everyone that dwelleth therein shall
languish;
that is, every man, an inhabitant thereof, shall become weak,
languish away, and die through wounds received by the enemy; or
for want of food, or being infected with the wasting and
destroying pestilence: with the beasts of the field, and
with the fowls of heaven;
the one shall die in the field for want of grass to eat, and the
other shall drop to the earth through the infection of the air:
yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken
away;
or "gathered" F16; to some other place, so as to
disappear; or they shall be consumed and die, as Kimchi
interprets it; and as all these creatures are for the good of
men, for sustenance, comfort, and delight, when they are taken
away, it is by way of punishment for their sins. So the Targum,
``the fishes of the sea shall be lessened for their sins.''