Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
From the time, etc.—rather, "As often as it comes over (that is, passes through), it shall overtake you" [HORSLEY]; like a flood returning from time to time, frequent hostile invasions shall assail Judah, after the deportation of the ten tribes.
vexation . . . understand . . . report—rather, "It shall be a terror even to hear the mere report of it" [MAURER], (I Samuel 3:11). But G. V. SMITH, "Hard treatment (HORSLEY, 'dispersion') only shall make you to understand instruction"; they scorned at the simple way in which the prophet offered it (Isaiah 28:9); therefore, they must be taught by the severe teachings of adversity.
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