Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word - the same persons as in - the believing few among the Jews.

Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake - excommunicate, as if too polluted to worship with them ( ). So in Christ's first sojourn on each ( ; ; John 9:34 ; ; ). So it shall be again in the last times, when the believing shall be few ( ).

Said, Let the Lord be glorified - the mocking challenge of the persecutors, as if their violence toward you was from zeal for God. 'Let the Lord show Himself glorious'-namely, by manifesting Himself in your behalf; as the parallelism to "but he shall appear to your joy" requires, as in . Compare ; . So against Christ on the cross (). "But he shall appear to your joy" - giving you "joy" instead of your "rebuke" ( Isaiah 25:8).