They come – That is, ‘Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation’ – the collected armies come. The prophet sees these assembled armies with Y…

They come from a far country ... —The same phrase is used of Cyrus in Isaiah 46:11, and in Isaiah 39:3 of Babylon itself …

Coming from a distant country. He repeats and confirms more fully what I stated a little before, that the operations of war do not spring …

They come from a far country, from the end of heaven
The east, as Kimchi observes; the Targum is, from the ends of t…

The threatenings of God's word press heavily upon the wicked, and are a grievous burden, too heavy for them to bear. The persons brought together t…

1. The burden of Babylon. Here the prophet threatens the Babylonians, who had captured the two tribes. This is divided into …