8. Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven. So complete an overthrow was evidently a judgment from heaven; those
who saw it not, yet heard the report of it, said, “This is the finger of God.” Man
will not hear God’s voice if he can help it, but God takes care to cause it to
be heard. The echoes of that judgment executed on the haughty Assyrian are
heard still, and will ring on down all the ages, to the praise of divine
justice. The earth feared, and was still. All nations trembled at the
tidings, and sat in humbled awe. Repose followed the former turmoils of war,
when the oppressor’s power was broken, and God was reverenced for having given
quiet to the peoples. How readily can Jehovah command an audience! It may be
that in the latter days he will, by some such miracles of power in the realms
of grace, constrain all earth’s inhabitants to attend to the Gospel, and submit
to the reign of his all-glorious Son. So be it, good Lord.
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