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Isaiah 17:12-18:7. Sudden destruction of a great army in Judea (namely that of the Assyrian Sennacherib), and announcement of the event to the Ethiopian ambassadors.
The connection of this fragment with what precedes is: notwithstanding the calamities coming on Israel, the people of God shall not be utterly destroyed (Isa 6:12, Isa 6:13); the Assyrian spoilers shall perish (Isa 17:13, Isa 17:14).
Woe ... multitude - rather, “Hosea (Hark)! a noise of,” etc. The prophet in vision perceives the vast and mixed Assyrian hosts (Hebrew, “many peoples,” see on Isa 5:26): on the hills of Judah (so “mountains,” Isa 17:13): but at the “rebuke” of God, they shall “flee as chaff.”
to the rushing ... that make - rather, “the roaring ... roareth” (compare Isa 8:7; Jer 6:23).