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Isaiah 29:20

Isaiah 29:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The terrible one … the scorner. "The terrible one" may be the foreign enemy, as in , or, possibly, the native oppressor (; :93, etc.)—a still more tearful evil. "The scorner" is the godless man, who scoffs at religion (, ).

Both classes would be "consumed" and "brought to naught" when the new state of things was established. All that watch for iniquity; i.e. "all those who, for the furtherance of their iniquitous schemes, rise up early and late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness" ().

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