the day of the LORD. See note on Isa_2:11, Isa_2:17. The prophecy is now enlarged, and includes all the nations who were Israel's enemies.
as = according as. This prophecy was fulfilled, so far as Edom was concerned, later on (see 1 Macc. 5.4, 65. Josephus, De Bell. iv. 5); likewise will the judgment on "all the nations" be literally fulfilled.