Woe to thee that spoilest
The most beautiful of Isaiah’s discourse [in which] the long conflict of Israel’s sin with Jehovah’s righteousness is left behind, and the dark colours of present and past distress serve only as a foil to the assured felicity that is ready to dawn on Jehovah’s land.
(W. Robertson Smith, D. D.)
Treacherous Assyria
The course of Assyria was that of a treacherous dealer--no confidence whatever could be reposed in this people. They were born to spoil, and the moment they ceased spoiling they would be spoiled in turn. (B. Blake, B. D.)
Aggravated sin
The less provocation we have from men to do an ill thing, the more provocation we give to God by it. (M. Henry.)