19And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
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Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-21)It is the comfort and triumph of the church (Isa. 59:19) that when the enemy shall come in like a flood , with mighty force and fury, then the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him . Now, in this vision (the second which this prophet had), we have an illustration of that, God’s Spirit making a stand, and making head, against the formidable power of the church’s adversaries. I. We…
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