* Again.
   The incidents detailed in these verses, which frequently
   occur, and mark the superintendence of a benign Providence,
   and the hand of a just God, appear to be brought forward to
   illustrate the return of the Israelites from captivity, and
   the punishment of their oppressors the Babylonians.
   Wherefore, at last, as in a common chorus, they conclude with
   exhorting each other to a serious consideration of these
   things, and to make a proper return to the Almighty.

 * they are.
  30:6,7  Ge 45:11  Ru 1:20,21  1Sa 2:5-7  2Ki 4:8  8:3  Job 1:10-17 
 * oppression.
  Ex 1:13,14  2:23,24  Jud 6:3-6  2Ki 10:32  13:7,22  14:26 
  2Ch 15:5,6  Jer 51:33,34