Isaiah 18

Isaiah 18:4

God’s being like a clear heat, or a cloud of dew, may either be understood of his afflicting or of his comforting them. 5, 6. Before they can ripen their designs, I will give up multitudes of them to destruction, and their unburied carcasses to ravenous fowls and beasts of the earth

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XVIII.—No place can protect sinners from an angry God. No furious rage, which may render them a terror to their neighbours around, can hinder him from debasing them. His providential interpositions ought carefully to be remarked: and, when dangers are most alarming, he is often nearest to defend and save us. No rage of his enemies can ever disturb his repose. Often he seems to have forgotten his people when he is just ready to work their deliverance. And, while he is all-sufficient for the protection, quickening, and comfort, of his people, he can reduce the mightiest nations to ruin, or convert them to Christ, as he pleases