Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. He hath poured upon him the fury of his anger. "Upon him" - Israel (Isaiah 42:24).
And the strength of battle - the violence of war.
And it - the battle, or war (cf. Isaiah 10:16).
Hath set him on fire round about, yet he know not - knew not the lesson of repentance which the judgment was intended to teach (Isaiah 5:13; Isaiah 9:13; Jeremiah 5:3).
Remarks: God the Father calls upon all men to "behold" His beloved Son, who voluntarily became 'His servant' for man's sake. Redemption was no afterthought devised as an antidote to an evil unforeseen. Messiah was the Father's "elect" One, 'in whom His soul delighted,' as the fore-appointed Redeemer, before the world was. And in the fullness of time God 'put His Spirit on' Messiah, the Word made flesh: so that by His Gospel He brings forth "judgment" in its highest sense "to the Gentiles." The manifestation of Messiah at His first coming was characterized by pre-eminent meekness and gentleness. 'No cry' of impatience, no 'voice lifted up' in altercation was ever heard from Him. He courted privacy. And as He was a man of sorrows, and bruised Himself, He never 'breaks the bruised reed.' So far from 'quenching the smoking,' or smouldering, "flax" of the wick in the lamp of the soul, He will feed it with the oil of grace to increase the heaven-lit flame.