Since—or, but if you say.

But since you say. —Better, if you say.

Here the Prophet confirms what he had said, for God might have seemed to be too indignant, having been so grievously offended at one short expressi…

But since you say, the burden of the Lord Seeing, notwithstanding all prohibitions of it, and directions to the contrary,…

Those are indeed miserable who are forsaken and forgotten by God; and people's jesting at God's judgments will not thwart them. God had taken Israe…

1. Here, the prophet threatens those who mock the prophets. Just as they ridiculed Isaiah in his day, saying, “Command, command again, e…