For the Lord God of hosts - Note, (Isaiah 1:9).

Shall make a consumption - The Hebrew of this verse might be rende…

For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption. This repetition again wounds the self-complacency of those who proudly despised God. I…

For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption
Not of the land of Judea, as at the destruction of Jerusalem; but…

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…