Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened - namely, with smoke (Isaiah 9:18). The Septuagint and Chaldaic render it, is burnt up; so Maurer [ ne`ªtam (H6272)], from an Arabic root meaning suffocating heat.

No man shall spare his brother - intestine discord snapping asunder the dearest ties of nature.

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