I will utterly consume all [things] from off the land, saith the LORD.
Ver. 2. I will utterly consume all things from off the land] Exordium plane tragicum. A tragic beginning of a terrible sermon. Hard knots must have hard wedges; hard hearts, heavy menaces; yea, handfulls of hell fire must be cast into the faces of such, that they may awake out of the snare of the devil, by whom they are held captive at his pleasure, 2 Timothy 2:26. It is in the Hebrew, gathering I will gather all things, &c. q. d. g. I will pack up, I will take mine own, and be gone. Converram et convasabo omnia, I will sweep away all by the besom of my wrath, and leave a clean hand behind me, for the sins of those that dwell therein. The doubling of this denunciation, colligendo colligam, importeth the certainty, verity, and vehemence thereof.
Saith the Lord] Dictum Iehovae. You may believe it, therefore; for every word of his is sure, and cannot be broken, John 10:35, may not be slighted or shifted off, Hebrews 12:25 .