The highways lie waste - This verse contains a description of the desolations caused by Sennacherib's invasion. Some have understood it as…

The highways lie waste ... — Another feature in the picture of terror. No traveller dared to show himself on the main roa…

The roads are deserted. He now adds that “the roads” will be shut up, so that no one will go in or out, which commonly happens when war ha…

The highways lie waste
No man walking in them, for fear of the enemy; "the ways of Zion", which are said to "mourn, …

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…