8. thou shall be visited--in wrath, by God
(Isa 29:6).
Probably there is allusion to
Isa 24:21, 22,
"The host of the high ones . . . shall be gathered
. . . as prisoners . . . in the pit . . .
and after many days shall they be visited." I therefore prefer
English Version to GROTIUS rendering, "Thou
shalt get the command" of the expedition. The "after many days"
is defined by "in the latter years," that is, in the times just before
the coming of Messiah, namely, under Antiochus, before His first
coming; under Antichrist, before His second coming.
the mountains of Israel . . . always waste--that is, waste during the
long period of the captivity, the earnest of the much longer period of
Judea's present desolation (to which the language "always waste" more
fully applies). This marks the impious atrocity of the act, to assail
God's people, who had only begun to recover from their protracted
calamities.
but it is brought . . . and they shall dwell--rather, "And they (the
Israelites) were brought . . . dwelt safely"
[FAIRBAIRN].
English Version means, "Against Israel, which has been waste, but
which (that is, whose people) is now (at the time of the invasion)
brought forth out of the nations where they were dispersed, and shall be
found by the invader dwelling securely, so as to seem an easy prey to
him."
JFB.
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