And the rest of the trees ... - Still keeping up the image of a large and once dense forest, to which he had likened the Assyrian a…

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few. —To number an army, or to count the killed and wounded after a battle, was commonly …

And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be a number. When he adds that the remnant of them will be a number, he employs …

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few Which were left unconsumed, that escaped this destruction, those of …

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…