Isaiah 32:19

When it shall hail -Hebrew,ברדתברדbâradberedeth- ‘And it shall hail in coming down. There is a paranomasia in the original here, which cannot be expressed in a translation - a figure of speech, which, as we have seen, is common in Isaiah. ‘Hail’ is an image of divine vengeance or punishment; and the reference here is, doubtless, to the storms of indignation that would come on the enemies of the Jews, particularly on the Assyrians (see the notes atIsaiah 30:30). Coming down on the forest -Coming down on the army of the Assyrian, which is here called ‘a forest.’ The same term ‘forest’ is given to the army of the Assyrians inIsaiah 10:18-19,Isaiah 10:33-34.