20And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle. …
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; …
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. …
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. …
Commentary
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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