Isaiah 24:17

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. This is to be understood not of the land of Judea only, and the inhabitants of it, but of all the earth; Kimchi interprets…

Fear, and the pit - This verse is an explanation of the cause of the wretchedness referred to in the previous verse. The same expression is found in Jer 48:43, in his account of the destruction that…

These verses, as those before, plainly speak,

I. Comfort to saints. They may be driven, by the common calamities of the places where they live, into the uttermost parts of the earth, or perhaps they…

This description of the judgment on the earth and its inhabitants seems to connect immediately with Isa 24:24.

17, 18a recur almost verbatim in Jer 48:43 f. (cf. also Amo 5:19).

18b 20 describe the…