Therefore shall the Lord - Hebrew, אדון 'ādôn.

The Lord of hosts - In the present Hebrew text, the original …

Therefore shall the Lord ... send among his fat ones leanness. —The overthrow of the Assyrian is painted in the twofold i…

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness. He continues with the previous doctrine, declaring that the…

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts
Because of the pride, and arrogance, and vain boasting of the Assyrian m…

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…