Who said "Ad Masai Te'eval
Rashi: Until now the Navi spoke. Ru'ach ha'Kodesh answers him. Due to the evil of the residents, animals and birds were destroyed.
What is the meaning of "Ad Masai Te'eval ha'Aretz"?
Rashi: [When will it] be destroyed?
Radak: When will be the day designated for killing, i.e. the day of the Churban?
Malbim: How long will be destroyed ha'Aretz, i.e. the inanimate?
Will all the grass truly dry?
Radak: This is an exaggeration.
Malbim: Yes - the inanimate, vegetative and animate will be destroyed.
What is the meaning of "Safsah"?
Rashi: It will be eradicated 1 . Radak - this is an exaggeration.
Radak: This is like "ha'Af Tispeh Tzadik Im Rasha" (Bereishis 18:23), just that is Po'el Yotzei (it acts on others) and this is Po'el Omed (the action applies only to the subject).
Who said "He will not see our end"?
Rashi: The residents of this land.
What is the meaning of "He will not see our end"?
Rashi: He does not know what will happen to us at the end. Radak - this is because He does not supervise over us. Since they say so, it is proper that they not be saved.
Malbim: They deny His knowledge of the lower beings, and all the more so He does not know the future. He does not see that they will be eradicated; there is no Hashgachah, reward or punishment. Therefore, the Churban will not cause them to repent.
