Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Be ye not mockers - a sin which they had committed (Isaiah 28:9).

Lest your bands be made strong - their Assyrian bondage (). Judah was then tributary to Assyria. Or, 'lest your punishment be made still more severe.'

A consumption - destruction (Isaiah 10:22; ).

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