The terrible one. — The word stands, as in Isaiah 29:5, for the Assyrian invader; the “scorner,” for the prophet’s enemies who derided his message, and sought, “watching for iniquity,” to find an accusation against him.
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Isaiah 29:20
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: