And the Lord of hosts will stir up—or will raise up that which will act as a scourge to him.

A scourge for him—that is, th…

According to the slaughter of Midian. —The historical associations of Isaiah 9:4 are still in the prophet’s mind. In the history o…

And the LORD of hosts will stir up a scourge for him. Here Isaiah makes use of the word scourge, and not rod, meaning th…

And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him ,
&c.] The Assyrian monarch; this scourge stirred up or aw…

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…