John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me." — Isaiah 37:28 (ASV)
But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in , &c.] Where he dwelt, what he did at home, his secret councils, cabals, contrivances, schemes and plans for the compassing of his ends, the subduing of kingdoms, and setting up an universal monarchy; and his going out of Babylon, his marches, and counter marches, and his entrance into the land of Judea; there was not a motion made, or a step taken in the cabinet or camp, but what were known to the Lord; so the Targum, ``your sitting in council, and your going out abroad to make war, and your coming into the land of Israel, are manifest before me:''
and your rage against me ; against his people, against the city that was called by his name, against the temple where he was worshipped, particularly against his servant Hezekiah, because he would not immediately deliver up the city to him. The Targum and Syriac versions render it, "before me"; and then the meaning is, "your rage", wrath and fury, "is before me": or manifest to me; and which he could restrain at pleasure, as he promises to do in the next verse.