O Assyrian - The word הוי (hôy) — is commonly used to denounce wrath or to indicate approaching calamity, as an interjecti…

O A yrian. —These words open, as has been said above, a perfectly distinct section. A yria had been named in connection with the S…

O Assyrian. What now follows relates to the threat of punishment, but at the same time mingles some consolation to alleviate the distresse…

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger
Either as calling him to come against the land of Israel to spoil it, so Kimchi; o…

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…