Isaiah 32:19

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. So the Septuagint, Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac refer "coming down" to the hail, not to the forest. But the Vulgate refers it to the forest. So Maurer. Literally, 'But it shall hail with coming down of the forest, and in lowness shall the city (Nineveh) be brought low - i:e., humbled.' The "hail" is Yahweh's wrathful visitation (; ; ). The forest is the Assyrian host, dense as the trees of a forest (Isaiah 10:18; ; ). In the antitypical sense, "the forest" is the antichristian host; and "the city" is the God-opposed world-city. So the "hail" in the Egyptian plague () smote all in the field, both man and beast, and brake every tree: "only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail." When the enemy shall be smitten with overwhelming troubles, the people of God shall dwell in quiet ().