Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Ver. 1. Woe to thee that spoilest.] Minatur vastationem vastatori Sennacherib, vel Antichristo, quem praesignat. a Sennacherib and Antichrist are here threatened.
And thou wast not spoiled.] Thou abusest thy present peace, and the riches of God's goodness and patience toward thee, to fall foul upon others unprovoked.
And dealest treacherously.] This some b understand of Sennacherib. See 2Ki 18:14; 2 Kings 18:17. Others of Shebna and other traitors in Jerusalem, who dealt underhandedly with the enemy against Hezekiah, and might haply meet with the like meed as he did who betrayed the Rhodes to the Turks, who flayed him and salted him. Or at least as Charles IV's agents did from Philip, Duke of Austria, who paid them the sum he promised them, but in counterfeit money, saying that false coin is good enough for such false knaves as they had showed themselves to be.
Thou shalt be spoiled.] Of kingdom, and life, and all, by thy treacherous sons. Isa 37:38
“ Siquis quod fecit patitur, iustissima lex est. ”
See Judges 7:11. See Trapp on " Jdg 7:11 " And fear thou God, who loveth to retaliate, to pay wicked men home in their own coin, to fill them with their own ways, to overshoot them in their own bow, &c. Vae ergo vastatoribus: one time or other God will be even with such.
a Oecolam.
b Ibid.