Verse 18
18. know—not in the Hebrew. Rather, understand the words by aposiopesis; it is usual in threats to leave the persons threatened to supply the hiatus from their own fears, owing to conscious guilt: "For I . . . their works and thoughts," c. namely, will punish [MAURER].
it shall come—the time is come that I will, c. [MAURER].
gather . . . nations—against Jerusalem, where the ungodly Jews shall perish and then the Lord at last shall fight for Jerusalem against those nations: and the survivors (Isaiah 66:19) shall "see God's glory" (Zechariah 12:8; Zechariah 12:9; Zechariah 14:1-3; Zechariah 14:9).
tongues—which have been many owing to sin, being confounded at Babel, but which shall again be one in Christ (Daniel 7:14; Zephaniah 3:9; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 7:10).
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