Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD [is] at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Ver. 7. Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God] When his hand is upon thy back let thy hand be on thy mouth. Chat not against him, murmur not at his menaces, but stand mute before him. He is the Lord God, Three in One, and One in Three: thou art also always in his presence, which thou canst not flee from them, Psalms 139:7, therefore see Habakkuk 2:20, See Trapp on " Hab 2:20 " and the rather because God stands over thee with his judgments.
For the day of the Lord is at hand] Wherein he will powerfully declare himself to be a God that cannot lie, and that his wrath is quo diuturnior eo minacior, the longer in coming the heavier it lands. This was soon after fulfilled in the death of their good King Josiah, with whom died all the peace and prosperity of that people: and Judea often changed her masters, but not her miseries, till at length she was carried captive to Babylon.
For the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice] That is, a bloody slaughter of you, by the cruel Chaldees, who shall sacrifice you, that have so much gloried in the multitude of your sacrifices: and God shall glorify himself as much now in your just destruction as ever he did in your forefathers' commendable devotion.
He hath bid his guests] The Babylonians, and (after they have filled themselves) the birds and beasts, as Revelation 19:17,18, so that ye shall have sepulturam insepultam, a graceless burial.