James White
“Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey; and the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment.” “And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor.” Isaiah 59:14–16.
I think that the next two verses, which speak of our Lord’s putting on the “garments of vengeance for clothing,” to “repay fury to His adversaries,” point to the wrath of God in the seven last plagues. God has shown this day of wrath, in prophetic vision, to some of His servants by different symbols. Ezekiel saw it in the men with “slaughter-weapons,” slaying “utterly, old and young.”—Eze. 9:3, 6. John saw it in the seven last plagues, while Esdras saw it in the famine, pestilence, and the sword. The Bible contains many descriptions of this soon expected day of wrath.
“A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.”—Ps. 91:5–10.
“Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt.”—Isa. 13:6–7.
“And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth.”—Zech. 14:12.
The seed is rotted under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down, for the corn is withered. See Joel 1:15–18; Jer. 30:23–24; Dan. 12:1; Hab. 3:12–13; Zeph. 1:17–18; 2 Esdras 15:10–13. I am quite sure that our Savior referred to the same when He spake of “distress of nations, with perplexity.”