Sent a word; a prophetical and threatening message by me; for now the prophet, having inserted some consolatory passages for the support of God's faithful people, returns to his former work of commination against the rebellious Israelites. It lighted, Heb. it fell, i.e. it shall fall, in the prophetical style. It shall certainly be accomplished. Israel; the same with Jacob in the former clause, the posterity of Jacob or Israel.
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Isaiah 9:8
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.