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He will surely violently turn - Lowth has well expressed the sense of this:
He will whirl you round and round, and cast …

Like a ball into a large country. —The picture is that of a ball flung violently onto a smooth, even plain where it bounds on and on with …

Turning he will turn thee. Isaiah continues the same discourse, in which he ridiculed the pride of Shebna, who had spent so much on buildi…

He will surely violently turn and toss thee
Or, "wrapping he will wrap you with a wrapping"; as anything is wrapped …

This message to Shebna is a reproof of his pride, vanity, and security. How vain is all earthly grandeur, which death will so soon end! What will i…

The burden of the valley. Here the prophet issues a threat against those who were joined to the people of God by their position of…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes