John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 8:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they shall look unto the earth, &c.] As persons in distress, upwards and downwards, backwards and forwards, on the right hand and on the left, particularly into the land of Judea; a land that used to flow with milk and honey, a land of light, plenty, and prosperity: and behold trouble and darkness; adversity, and miseries of all kinds, expressed by a variety of words; and even words fail to express the tribulation of these times, which were such as were not from the beginning of the world, (<402422>Matthew 24:22): dimness of anguish; or “fleeing from affliction”f151, multitudes everywhere fleeing from one place to another, to avoid the calamities coming upon them, (<402416>Matthew 24:16-20): and [they shall be] driven to darkness; when they endeavour to escape one calamity, they shall be driven and fall into another; the whole land shall be full of nothing else.

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