I will bring - Or, am bringing.

I will bring evil. —The Hebrew expresses immediate action, I am bringing.

The Prophet now pronounces a calamity upon them. For it is probable that for many years he had been their teacher, threatening them, but all in vai…

Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, I will bring evil upon
them
The evil of punish…

Evil pursues sinners, and entangles them in snares from which they cannot free themselves. Now, in their distress, their many gods and many altars …

1. Here, he threatens an inescapable punishment for incorrigible guilt.

   1. He speaks of the punishment: behold I