However, he does not mean so – It is not his purpose to be the instrument in God's hand for executing His designs. He has a different …

However, he does not mean so. —The thoughts which Isaiah puts into the mouth of the Assyrian are exactly in accord with the suprem…

Yet he will not think so. When wicked men vomit out their rage, they disturb weak minds, as if it were not in God's power to restrain thei…

Howbeit he means not so, neither does his heart think so,
&c.] His purposes, intentions, and thoughts, were not as t…

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…