* Though.
   That is, probably, "Though ye have laboured and lain down
   between the brick-kilns in Egypt--a poor, enslaved, and
   oppressed people, yet ye shall gradually rise to dignity,
   prosperity, and splendour; as a dove, which has been defiled
   with dirt, disordered, and dejected, by washing herself in a
   running stream, and trimming her plumage, gradually recovers
   the serenity of her disposition, the purity of colour, and the
   richness and varied elegance of her appearance."

 * ye have.
  81:6  Ex 1:14  1Co 6:9-11  12:2  Eph 2:1-3  Tit 3:3 
 * the wings.
  74:19  105:37  149:4  1Ki 4:20,21  Eze 16:6-14  Lu 15:16,22 
  Eph 5:26,27  Re 1:5,6