Isaiah 66:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Behold, the Lord will come with fire - ( Isaiah 9:5 ; Psalms 50:3 ; Habakkuk 3:5 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; 2 Peter 3:7 .)

Chariots like a whirlwind - (Jeremiah 4:13.)

To render his anger with fury - as the Hebrew, lªhashiyb (H7725) ... 'apow (H639 ), elsewhere (Job 9:13 ; Psalms 78:38 ) means, to allay or stay wrath. Maurer translates it so here: He stays His anger with nothing but fury, etc.: nothing short of pouring out all His fiery fury will satisfy His wrath. However, the Septuagint [apodounai ekdikeesin autou], Vulgate [reddere furorem suum], Chaldaic, Arabic, and Syriac support the English version.

Fury - `burning heat' (Lowth), to which the parallel, "flames of fire," answer.

Isaiah 66:15

15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.