‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
Deborah calls herself to wake, to wake again, the work of praising God demands all the liveliness and vigour of soul, the closest intensity and application of every power. And Barak must lead his captives in triumph through the city, not for pleasure in trampling them, but to give glory to God and abase the proud.
AI summary
Commenting on Judges 5:12-23
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord,.... Not Barak, as the Targum and Jarchi, but Deborah herself said this under a spirit of prophecy, not from her own spirit in a revengeful way, but from the Spirit of God; or this was suggested to her by an angel, not a created, but the uncreated one, the Angel of the covenant, by whom she...
Curse ye Meroz--a village on the confines of Issachar and Naphtali, which lay in the course of the fugitives, but the inhabitants declined to aid in their destruction.