Isaiah 37:27

"“‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps."

Key Reflection

In this passage, Isaiah uses the phrase to underscore God’s eternal sovereignty and his unchanging nature, emphasizing that His plans, though they may involve destruction, are not new but have been part of His divine plan from ancient times. This assertion serves to remind Hezekiah and his people that what appears as judgment is actually a fulfillment of God's ongoing purpose for the nation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore -Not because you have so great power; but because I have rendered them incapable of resisting you. Were of small power -Hebrew, ‘Short of hand;’ they were feeble, imbecile, unable to resist you. They were dismayed -Hebrew, ‘They were broken and ashamed.’ Their spirits sank; they were ashamed of their feeble powers of resistance; and they submitted to the ignominy of a surrender. They were as the grass of the field -The same idea is expressed by Sennacherib himself inIsaiah 10:15, though under a different image (see the note on that verse).

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