Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 32:19

19. When it shall hail, coming down on the forrest , and the city shall be low in a low place .

Heb. And it shall hail, &c. As my Blessings shall be poured down upon my People, who, from a Wilderness, are turned into a fruitful Field, as it is said, ver. 15. So my Wrath and Judgments (which are signified by hail, Isa. 28. 2, 17. and elsewhere) shall fall upon them, who were a fruitful Field, but are turned into a Forrest, as was said, ver. 15. i. e. upon the unbelieving and rebellious Iews, who seem to be there designed under that Notion.

Either 1. Babylon, the great Enemy and Oppressour of Go[illegible: 1+ letters]'s People. Or 2. Ierusalem, which, though now it was the Seat of God's Worship and People; yet he foresaw, by the Spirit of Prophecy, That it would be the great Enemy of the Messiah, and of God's People.

Heb. Shall be humbled with humiliation: Which, by an ordinary Hebraisme signifies, Shall be greatly humbled, or brought very low.

Marginal references: Or, and the city shall be utterly abased.