4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; …
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: …
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The general title of this book was, The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz , Isa. 1:1. Here we have that which Isaiah saw, which was represented to his mind as clearly and fully as if he had seen it with his bodily eyes; but the particular inscription of this sermon is the burden of Babylon . 1. It is a burden, a lesson they were to learn (so some understand it), but they would be loth to learn it,…
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