The Lord of hosts, will defend them - As God says, “I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake and for My servant David’s sak…

The advent of the king. It has been urged as an objection against the post-exilic authorship of this pa age that “Ephraim” and “Jerusalem” are ment…

The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine…

He expresses the same thing again in other words—that God would be like a shadow to His people, so that He would protect them from their enemies wi…

The Lord of hosts shall defend them
Against all their enemies; against Satan, and his temptations, and all the opposi…

The prophet bursts forth with a joyful representation of the coming of the Messiah, whom the ancient Jews understood this prophecy to be about. He …