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For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
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God's Judgment is Certain
Commentators emphasize that the judgment described is not a mere possibility but a "determined" and "fixed" decree from the sovereign "Lord God of hosts." Both Albert Barnes and John Calvin note that God himself is the author of this "consumption." This serves as a powerful warning against pride and the false security that comes from trusting in anything other than God.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the Lord God of hosts - Note, (Isaiah 1:9).
Shall make a consumption - The Hebrew of this verse might be rende…
16th Century
Protestant
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption. This repetition again wounds the self-complacency of those who proudly despised God. I…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption Not of the land of Judea, as at the destruction of Jerusalem; but…
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Through our afflictions, we may learn not to place our confidence in created things. Only those who return to him in truth, not in pretense and out…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Woe to them that make wicked laws. Here he begins to threaten the foreign enemies who persecute them physically.
He threa…
