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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 27 This chapter refers to the same times as the two foregoing ones Isaiah 25:1; and is a continuation of the same song, or rather a new one on the same occasion; it is prophetical of the last times, and of what shall be done in them, as the destruction of the antichristian powers, and Satan at the head of them, Isaiah 27:1 the happy state of the church, and its fruitfulness...
John Gill
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him?.... No; the Lord does smite his people by afflictive dispensations of his providence; he smites them in their persons, and families, and estates; see Isaiah 57:17 as he smote Israel, by suffering them to be carried captive, and as the Jews are now smitten by him in their present state; yet not as he smote Pharaoh, with his ten plagues, and...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter the prophet goes on to show, I. What great things God would do for his church and people, which should now shortly be accomplished in the deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib and the destruction of the Assyrian army; but it is expressed generally, for the encouragement of the church in after ages, with reference to the power and prevalency of her enemies. 1. That proud...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? No; God smites his people, but he never smites them as he does their enemies. He smites his people, as old Trapp says, with the palm of his hand, as a man may smite his child; but he smites his enemies with his fist, as one would dash his foe to the ground. There is a...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: God always chasteneth his people in measure; he makes a debate about it; he weighs their troubles in scales, and their sorrows in balances.