27Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
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For our God is a consuming fire.
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. …
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. …
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-33)This terrible prediction of the ruin of the Assyrian army, though it is a threatening to them, is part of the promise to the Israel of God, that God would not only punish the Assyrians for the mischief they had done to the Israel of God, but would disable and deter them from doing the like again; and this prediction, which would now shortly be accomplished, would ratify and confirm the foregoing p…
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