Isa 29:5-8 | JFB | STEP | 5. Moreover-- rather, "Yet"; yet in this extremity help shall come, and the enemy be scattered. strangers-- foreign enemies, invaders ( ). it shall be-- namely, the destruction of the enemy. at an instant-- in a moment ( ).

‏ Isaiah 29:5-8

5. Moreover--rather, "Yet"; yet in this extremity help shall come, and the enemy be scattered.

strangers--foreign enemies, invaders (Is 25:2).

it shall be--namely, the destruction of the enemy.

at an instant--in a moment (Is 30:23).

6. Thou--the Assyrian army.

thunder, &c.--not literally, in the case of the Assyrians (Is 37:36); but figuratively for an awful judgment (Is 30:30; 28:17). The ulterior fulfilment, in the case of the Jews' foes in the last days, may be more literal (see as to "earthquake," Zec 14:4).

7. munition--fortress.

8. Their disappointment in the very height of their confident expectation of taking Jerusalem shall be as great as that of the hungry man who in a dream fancies he eats, but awakes to hunger still (Psa 73:20); their dream shall be dissipated on the fatal morning (Is 37:36).

soul--simply his appetite: he is still thirsty.