For though ... - In this verse, and in (Isaiah 10:23), the prophet expresses positively the idea that “but” a remnant of the peo…

Though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea. — The word “remnant” has, however, its aspect of severity as well as …

For though your people be. He casts down hypocrites from foolish confidence, for they considered it enough to be the descendants of holy A…

For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea ,
&c.] These words are spoken either by the Lord to the prop…

Through our afflictions, we may learn not to place our confidence in created things. Only those who return to him in truth, not in pretense and out…

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

He threa…