6. Up to this, chastisement; now, judgment, but as it is the intervention of God, it is the deliverance of His people, but in a remnant.
20-27. Nothing can be more distinct than the elements of the prophecy here, and its bearing is equally important—the Remnant, the calah v'nekheratzah (A.V., a. consumption even determined) of the last days—the judgment of the great enemy; in this, the indignation ceasing. It is a deliverance, like Egypt, only Israel has been purged by judgment. Chapter 44, and the anointing has taken its effect, so that it is secure and stables How rationalists are to be pitied! And Lowth is not much better, indeed never to be trusted. No doubt in Hezekiah's time it cast its shadow before, compare verse 5. Chapter 11 must be read as the same prophecy, i.e., from chapter 10: 25 to 11: 6.