John Trapp on Isaiah 17:14

Ver. 14. And behold at even-tide trouble] Or, terrour, ſc. within Jeruſalem beſieged by Sennacheribs forces. But this mourning laſted but till morning. The time of affl[illegible: 1 letter]ction is ordinarily ſhort; a day, or a night; a piece of a night, as here: a moment, Iſa. 54.8. a ſmall moment, ver. 7. Or if longer, yet 1. there are ſome breathing-whiles betwixt. 2. There's much good got by it. 3. Tis nothing to Eternity.

Before morning he is not] He and his forces are all gone. The wicked (ſaith Oecolampadius here) at the even-tide of their death have an hard tug of it: and in the morning of the Reſurrection they are not, or could wiſh they were not.

This is the portion of them that spoyl us] Epiphonema ad populum Dei. He cloſeth up his diſcourſe with a word of comfort to all Gods people: for whoſe ſake alſo it is that all this is ſaid againſt Aſſyria, Syria and other forraign States, enemies to the Church.