This chapter relates to the same events as the foregoing chapter, the distress of Judah and Jerusalem by Sennacherib’s invasion and their deliverance out of that distress by the destruction of the Assyrian army. These are intermixed in the prophecy, in the way of a Pindaric. Observe, I.

Here we have, I. The proud and false Assyrian justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence, and laid under a woe, Isa. 33:1. Observe, 1. The sin which the enemy had been guilty of.

Here is a preface that commands attention; and it is fit that all should attend, both near and afar off, to what God says and does : Hear, you that are afar off, whether in place or time. Let distant regions and future ages hear what God has done.