the day of the LORD. See note on Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:17. The prophecy is now enlarged, and includes all the nations who were Israel's enemies.
as. according as. This prophecy was fulfilled, so far as Edom was concerned, later on (see. Macc. 5.4, 65. Josephus, De Bell. iv. 5); likewise will the judgment on "all the nations" be literally fulfilled.