Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

This Tyrant proceeds here, glorying still in his forces, and threatens to bring so ⟨p. 375⟩mighty an army, that the multitudes of his soldiers shall be able to drink the fountains and rivers of Jewry dry. By the rivers of the siege, some understand the river Shiloh, and the Cisterns which the besieged Jews could not lose but they must forthwith perish for thirst. Yet in the first member he seems to affirm, that he fears no want of water, though the whole country were destitute of it, because he hath men enow to dig pits. In the second place he saith, he is furnished with means sufficient to dry up all the waters of the City, thinking thus to terrify the Jews. His meaning in a word is, that Jerusalem will not be able to endure the siege, nor be able to stand out long against him, but must forthwith be constrained to yield. Now when the wicked make their vaunts on this manner, God sits in heaven, whence at the last he will denounce his just sentence against them.¹