The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear. Terror seizes the godless. “Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry. “Who can survive this all-consuming fire?”

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

The sinners in Zion are afraid—This verse is evidently designed to describe the alarm that was produced in Jerusalem among impenitent sinn…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

The sinners in Zion are afraid. But someone might object that the subject treated here is not so important as to need that lofty preface i…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

The sinners in Zion are afraid, and fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites Meaning not persons of such a character that…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

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…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

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…