Isaiah 31:2

"Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity."

"He also is wise ..." (Isaiah 31:2). This is a sarcastic remark, roughly equivalent to this, "Well, perhaps you wise men should remember that God also has some intelligence." Furthermore, God will not have to revise what he says every time the situation changes! "This is intense irony. Wisdom is not wholly confined to Hezekiah's evil human counselors!"[3]

"And not call back his words ..." (Isaiah 31:2). Such a statement may seem to contradict such passages as that in Jonah where it is stated that "God repented of the evil that he said he would do unto them and did it not" (Jonah 3:10). Clarkson's comment on this was correct when he declared that, "There is always a reservation understood, whether stated or not, with regard to every Divine promise and every Divine threat."[4] This was the very thing that kindled the anger of Jonah against the Lord; and many people today don't like it, but Jeremiah spelled it out beautifully in Jeremiah 18:7-10.