The argument in these two verses is this: ‘The nations which I have subdued were profe edly under the protection of idol gods. Yet those idols were…

Shall I not, as I have done ... —The verse gives the occasion of Isaiah’s utterance. Sargon was threatening Jerusalem, pr…

Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria, and her idols ,
&c.] Kimchi observes, that what is said in the preceding ver…

See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride, thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of Providence. Go…

1. Woe to them that make wicked laws. Here he begins to threaten the foreign enemies who persecute them physically.

He threa…