Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 5:19

19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it : and let the counsel of the holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it.

To wit, God, in whose Name thou and other Prophets are always reproving and threatning us.

He onely thinks to affright us with Bugbears; but he either cannot, or will not do us any harm: we do not fear him, let him do his worst, let him begin as soon as he pleaseth. Not that any of the Israelites were so impudent as to use these Expressions; but this was the plain Language of their Actions, they lived as if they were of this Opinion; their Presumption and Security shewed their desperate Contempt of God, and of all his Judgments.

Who by his [illegible: 1 word] is engaged to punish us. They scornfully repeated the Title usually given by the Prophets unto God.

Marginal references: Jer. 17. 15, Amos 5. 18. 2 Pet. 3. 3, 4.