A noise shall come up [even] to the ends of the
earth
Wars, and rumours of wars, everywhere, till the cup has gone
round, and all nations have drank of it, and have felt the power
of divine wrath for their sins: for the Lord hath a
controversy with the nations;
will enter into a judicial process with them; will litigate the
point with them, and try it openly; that it may be seen who is in
the right, and who in the wrong: he will plead with all
flesh;
or enter into judgment with them, as Kimchi; or reprove them in
judgment, as Jarchi; he will be too many for them; he will carry
his case, overcome them in judgment, and reprove and condemn
them. Or the words may be rendered, "he will be judged by all
flesh" F19; he will submit it to the judgment
of the whole world, if it is not a righteous thing in him to do
what he is about to do, and will do; he will make it clear and
manifest that he does nothing unjustly, but all according to the
strict rules of justice and equity: he will give them [that
are] wicked to the sword, saith the Lord;
to be destroyed by it, and none but them; and seeing they are
such that deserve it, he is not to be charged with
unrighteousness in so doing.