23For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
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Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. …
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. …
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-23)The prophet had said (Isa. 10:12) that the Lord would perform his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem , by Sennacherib’s invading the land. Now here we are told what that work should be, a twofold work:— I. The conversion of some, to whom this providence should be sanctified and yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness, though for the present it was not joyous, but grievous; these are…
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