Isa_13:11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Ver. 11. And I will punish the world.] That is, the Chaldean state; for they reckoned themselves
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, or lords of the world. See on Isa_13:5. Or to show that, if the whole world should conspire against the Lord, he can as easily punish them as he did that rabble of rebels the old world. See Dan_4:17.
And lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.] Or, Of the roysters or tyrants.