Through His servants the prophets. Nachum and Chavakuk, but because Menashe was wicked, they were not referred to with his name to explain that they were [prophesying] in his time.

Will ring. An expression of cymbals,¹ tintiner, in O. F.

footnotes: ¹ See Rashi in I Shmuel 3:11.

And the plumb line. That is the string to which the builders of a wall tie a lead weight to make the wall straight.²

footnotes: ² I.e., so that the following rows of bricks or stones will all be directly above one another.

As one wipes a dish. As one wipes a dish.³

footnotes: ³ Just as one wipes a dish and turns it over so that it should not become soiled or be eaten from any more, so will Yerusholayim be cleaned out of its habitants and then it will destroyed so that it would no longer be habitable.—Radak