Shall be sanctified. — Men had not recognised the holiness of Jehovah, and therefore He must manifest that holiness (in that sense “be sanctified”) in acts of righteous severity. The “Holy One of Israel” was, we must remember, the name, of all Divine names, in which Israel most delighted, the ever-recurring burden of all the prophet’s utterances.
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Isaiah 5:16
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and Godd that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.