Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 59:19
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Isaiah59:19
19. (Is 45:6; Mal 1:11). The result of God's judgments (Is 26:9; 66:18-20).
like a flood--(Jr 46:7, 8; Re 12:15).
lift up a standard--rather, from a different Hebrew root, "shall put him to flight," "drive him away" [Maurer]. Lowth, giving a different sense to the Hebrew for "enemy" from that in Is 59:18, and a forced meaning to the Hebrew for "Spirit of the Lord," translates, "When He shall come as a river straitened in its course, which a mighty wind drives along."
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