Here are blessed encouragements given to God's people, in the midst of impending judgments. It is as if the prophet had said; "The Lord's punishment of Judah, as a nation, is inevitable; it shall come; all attempts to alter his purpose, will be vain. Look therefore neither to young nor old, to counsel nor strength, for all will fail; but repose in the Lord. God is with us: He whose name is Immanuel, will come in due time. And in the mean season, as he is to be born of a virgin, and from among his people; the holy seed, shall be the substance thereof, " Isaiah 6:13. Reader! let you and I always take comfort, in the worst of times; and under the darkest dispensations, in the recollection of this. If Jesus be with us, there is a blessing in it, though our state be as the withered grape, Isaiah 65:8. Say, as the wife of Manoah: If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have accepted Christ at our hands; Judges 13:23. Precious Lord Jesus! it is thou that art the hope of Israel, and the Saviour thereof, Jeremiah 14:8.
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Isaiah 8:9-10
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.