Verse 25
25. Hast thou not heard The question expresses surprise that the king of Assyria should be ignorant of a matter so notorious as that Assyria was to be the instrument divinely chosen to scourge Israel and Judah.
Of ancient times that I have formed it That is, Jehovah, long before, had appointed these triumphs of Assyria, ordained that Assyria should lay waste the land of Judah, and he had announced it by his holy prophets.
Compare Isaiah 7:17-20; Isaiah 8:7-8; Isaiah 10:5-11.
That thou shouldest be to lay waste This is thy preordained destiny, namely, to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. So far was he from working his conquests by his own power, that he was unconsciously working out the preordained plans of Jehovah.
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