5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
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And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; …
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
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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