Behold - This verse introduces a new subject by a very sudden transition. It is designed, with the two following verses, to exhibit…

Behold, their valiant ones. —Literally, their lions of God. Hebrew, Arielam, probably with a reference …

Behold, their messengers shall cry without. It is difficult to determine whether Isaiah historically relates the fearful perplexity and im…

Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without
Or, "in the street": this, and the two following verses ([Reference Isa…

Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own c…

1. Woe to you who plunder. In this part, the prophet begins to foretell the destruction of Israel’s enemies. This is presented in t…