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The Great Reversal
Commentators agree that this verse promises a dramatic reversal of fortunes. The Assyrian invaders, who came to plunder and destroy, will themselves be plundered. God demonstrates His justice by turning the tables on the oppressors, showing that those who live by spoiling others will ultimately be spoiled themselves.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 33:4
18th Century
Theologian
And your spoil – The booty that the Assyrian army had gathered in their march toward Jerusalem, and which would now be left by them to be co…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 33:4
19th Century
Bishop
Your spoil ... —The words are addressed to the invader. He who came to spoil should find himself spoiled. As caterpillars…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 33:4
16th Century
Theologian
And your prey shall be gathered. Here he addresses the Assyrians, unless it is considered preferable to refer it to the Jews and to take t…
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John Gill
On Isaiah 33:4
17th Century
Pastor
And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of
the caterpillar
This is the …
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 33:1–14
17th Century
Minister
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…