_THE JUDGMENTS WHEREWITH GOD REVENGETH HIS CHURCH. THE DESOLATION OF HER ENEMIES. THE CERTAINTY OF THE PROPHESY._ _Before Christ 713._ THE third discourse of the third part of Isaiah's prophesies, is contained in this and the subsequent chapter; which are connected with that preceding, and were de... [ Continue Reading ]
COME NEAR, &C.— _Draw near, O ye nations, and hearken; and attend unto me, O ye peoples! Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all that spring from it._ Lowth. As the prophet here directs his discourse to all the inhabitants of the earth, properly speaking, and not figuratively... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE INDIGNATION OF THE LORD IS UPON ALL NATIONS— _For the wrath of_ JEHOVAH _is kindled against all the nations; and his anger against all the orders thereof; he hath devoted them; he hath given them up to slaughter; and their slain shall be cast out; and from their carcases their stink shall as... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN— The meaning of this period is, that on a certain day of judgment, which is elsewhere called _the great day of the Lord's vengeance,_ a mighty slaughter shall be made of the hardened enemies of the church, a long time oppressed and afflicted by them, with the e... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE STREAMS THEREOF, &C.— The prophet, whose copiousness of speaking is every where inexhausted, paints, in the most chosen figures, an image of the land and city desolated by war, wasted by fire, and devoted to eternal devastation, by the divine judgment; which should not only be deprived of it... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK, &C.— This period contains the confirmation of the preceding sentence; wherein the prophet, to convict the hypocrites, and confirm the pious, assures them of the certain completion of this prophesy. The scene of his discourse is so constructed, as if the prophesy was now fulf... [ Continue Reading ]