Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Ver. 5. Then shall he speak unto them, &c.] Heb. He shall tell them, viz. a piece of his mind, to their small comfort. As a great prince sitting on a lofty throne berateth his rebels when once he hath brought them before him, and pronounceth sentence upon them in fierce wrath, see Jeremiah 52:9, so will the King of heaven do by his sturdy refractories. Whether he will speak unto them by his words or by his rods, Job 33:14; Job 33:19,21, and when he will do it he hath reserved in his own power and pleasure, Acts 1:7, but sooner or later he will not fail to do it; and
Poena venit gravior, quo mage sera venit.
And vex them] Or trouble them, as he did the builders of Babel, Pharaoh, Sennacherib, others; either by horror or conscience or corporal plagues, one way or the other he will have his penny worth of them, as he had of the old and late persecutors of his people.