But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
All the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. This promise, in its full acceptation, remains to be verified by the eventual and universal prevalence of Christianity in the world. But the terms were used restrictively, in respect of the occasion, to the report which would spread over all the land of the "terrible things in righteousness" which God would do in the infliction of the doom described, to which that rebellious race were now consigned.