The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense
are
come
In which the Lord would punish the people of Israel for their
sins, and reward them in a righteous manner, according as their
evil works deserved; which time, being fixed and appointed by
him, are called "days"; and these, because near at hand, are said
to be "come"; and this is repeated for the certainty of it:
Israel shall know [it];
by sad experience, that these days are come; and shall
acknowledge the truth of the divine predictions, and the
righteousness of God in his judgments. Schultens F26, from
the use of the phrase in the Arabic language, interprets it of
Israel's suffering punishment; with which agrees the Septuagint
version, "Israel shall be afflicted", or it shall go ill with
him; and to the same purpose the Arabic version: the
prophet [is] a fool;
so Israel said, before those days came, of a true prophet of the
Lord, that he was a fool for prophesying of evil things, but now
they shall find it otherwise. So the Targum,
``they of the house of Israel shall know that they who had prophesied to them were true prophets;''but rather this is to be understood of false prophets, who, when the day of God's visitation shall come on Israel in a way of wrath and vengeance, will appear both to themselves and others to be fools, for prophesying good things to them, when evil was at hand: the spiritual man [is] mad;
``but the false prophets besotted them, so as to increase thy transgression, and strengthen thine iniquities.''