Isaiah 9:20

And he shall snatch -Hebrew, ‘He shall cut off.’ Many have supposed that this refers to a state of famine; but others regard it as descriptive of a state of faction extending throughout the whole community, dissolving the most tender ties, arid producing a dissolution of all the bonds of life. The contextIsaiah 9:19,Isaiah 9:21shows, that the latter is meant; though it is not improbable that it would be attended with famine. When it is said that he ‘would cut off his right hand,’ it denotes a condition of internal anarchy and strife. And be hungry -And not be satisfied. Such would be his rage, and his desire of blood, that he would be insatiable.