Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 1:7

7 Your countrey is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence , and it is desolate , as overthrown by strangers .

All this and what follows was verified in the days of King Ahaz, 2 Chron. 28. in whose time, and upon which occasion, this Prophesie seems to have been delivered, as more exactly agreeing with that time than with any other. If any object, That this being the first of his Prophecies, must rather belong to the days of Uzziah, they must take notice, and it is agreed by Interpreters; and is undeniably true, that the Prophecies of Isaiah, as also of the other Prophets, are not set down in the same order in which they were delivered, but oftentimes the latter are put before the former.

Which your eyes shall see to torment you, when there is no power in your hands to deliver you.

Heb. As the overthrow of strangers, i. e. which strangers bring upon a land which is not theirs, nor likely to continue in their hands, and therefore they spare no persons that come in their way, and they spoil and destroy all things, which is not usually done in wars between persons of the same, or of a neighbour nation.

Marginal references: Deut. 28. 51, 52. Chap. 5. 5.; Heb. as the overthrow of strangers.