When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
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Gill's Exposition
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest,.... The people of God will be peaceable and quiet, safe and secure, when the judgments of God, signified by a "hail" storm, shall come upon antichrist,…
Barnes' Notes
When it shall hail - Hebrew, ברדת ברד bârad beredeth - ‘And it shall hail in coming down. There is a paranomasia in the original here, which cannot be expressed in a translation - a figure of speech,…
In these verses we have God rising up to judgment against the vile persons, to punish them for their villainy; but at length returning in mercy to the liberal, to reward them for their liberality.
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Cambridge Bible
The verse reads: And it shall hail at the falling of the forest, and in lowliness shall the city be laid low. According to most commentators the "forest" is a symbol for Assyria, as in ch. Isa 10:18…
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