21Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
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All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
And 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.
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: …
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
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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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