1. The, day of the Lord, is always, or involves, earthly judgment.
17, 18. "The Lord of hosts." 'Neither shall there be upon them... there shall be the plague,' etc., or, neglecting the athnakh, 'shall there not be upon them the plague.'
19. After all, I see no proof that khat-tath (sin) means punishment. Proverbs 10:1616The labor of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. (Proverbs 10:16) is the only passage that can be reasonably alleged, that I can find. It may perhaps, allude to it, as that which represents, and marks the sin, as 'he shall bear his iniquity,' the proof and force of which would be seeing him lie under the judgment it brought. This is the sense of the word (in two forms) in Lam. 3:3939Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? (Lamentations 3:39) and chapter 4: 6—bearing the sin on himself in punishment, something as the sense of sin-offering. And, I suppose, it must be so taken here, but so as to charge the measure, and the character of the sin, not merely the fact of punishment. It is governmentally putting the sin upon him, instead of taking it off; compare Lam. 4:2222The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. (Lamentations 4:22).