Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 28:22

22. Now therefore be ye not mockers , lest your bands be made strong : for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth .

For your own sakes do not make a mock of God's Word and Threatnings, as you use to do.

Lest thereby you make the Judgments of God, which are oft compared to bands, as Psal. 66. 11. and 73. 4. and elsewhere, more sure and unavoidable, and more severe and terrible, as bands are, when they are tyed faster, and more strongly upon a prisoner.

God hath assured me, That He will utterly root out, and destroy the people of Israel; as indeed he did in Hezekiah's reign.

Marginal references: chap. 10. 22, 23.