The earth shall quake before them - “Not,” says Jerome, “as though locusts or enemies had power to move the heavens or to shake th…

The earth shall quake before them.— Some commentators call this description “a specimen of the highly-wrought hyperbolica…

This chapter contains serious exhortations, mixed with threatenings; but the Prophet threatens for the purpose of correcting the indifference of th…

The earth shall quake before them
The inhabitants of it, because of the desolating judgments they bring with them, a…

The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of s…