The prophet in this chapter (according to the directions given him, Isa. 3:10–11) saith to the righteous, It shall be well with thee, but Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him. Here are, I.

The first words of this chapter plainly refer to the close of the foregoing chapter, where every thing looked black and melancholy: Behold, trouble, and darkness, and dimness —very bad, yet not so bad but that to the upright there shall arise light in the darkness and at evening time it shall be…

Here are terrible threatenings, which are directed primarily against Israel, the kingdom of the ten tribes, Ephraim and Samaria, the ruin of which is here foretold, with all the woeful confusions that were the prefaces to that ruin, all which came to pass within a few years after; but they look…