Isaiah 8:21-22 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry… He reads the doom of those that seek to familiar spirits, and regard not God's law and testimony. There shall not only be no light to them, no comfort; or prosperity, but they may expect all horror and misery. 1. The trouble they feared shall come upon them. They shall pass to and fro in the land, unfixed, unsettled, and driven from place to place by the threatening power of an invading enemy. 2. They shall be very uneasy to themselves, by their discontent and impatience under their trouble. 3. They shall be very provoking to all about them, nay, to all above them. When they find all their measures broken, and themselves at their wits' end, they will forget all the rules of duty and decency, and will treasonably curse their king, and blasphemously curse their God. 4. They shall abandon themselves to despair, and, which way soever they look, shall see no probability of relief. They. shall look upward, out heaven shall frown upon them; they shall look to the earth, but what comfort can that yield to those whom God is at war with? ( M. Henry.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. |
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