Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
13. Sanctify Jehovah of hosts himself. We have said that the reason why dangers lead to immoderate alarm is, that wretched men do not raise their eyes and minds to heaven. The Prophet now, therefore, proposes a suitable remedy for allaying terrors, that they who dread the evils which threaten them may learn to give to God the honor due to him.
The enemies of Judah gird themselves with policy and resolution, take counsel in war, and speak their determinations with confidence. Yet all their efforts are futile; you shall be broken in pieces, and your projects baffled, no matter how carefully you prepare or how often you resolve.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 8:9-15
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself,.... Christ, Immanuel, God with us, the Lord of the armies above and below, of angels and of men, God over all, the true Jehovah, who is sanctified by his people, when they declare him to be so; as the Targum paraphrases it, "the Lord of hosts, him shall ye say is holy;'' for they cannot make him so, nor...