Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word - the same persons as in Isaiah 66:2 - the believing few among the Jews.
Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake - excommunicate, as if too polluted to worship with them ( Isaiah 65:5 ). So in Christ's first sojourn on each ( Matthew 10:22 ; John 9:22 ; John 9:34-35 ; John 16:2 ; John 15:21). So it shall be again in the last times, when the believing shall be few (Luke 18:8).
Said, Let the Lord be glorified - the mocking challenge of the persecutors, as if their violence toward you was from zeal for God. 'Let the Lord show Himself glorious'-namely, by manifesting Himself in your behalf; as the parallelism to "but he shall appear to your joy" requires, as in Isaiah 5:19. Compare Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 57:4. So against Christ on the cross (Matthew 27:42-43). "But he shall appear to your joy" - giving you "joy" instead of your "rebuke" (Isaiah 25:8-9).