Isaiah 29:20 - Exposition

The terrible one … the scorner . "The terrible one" may be the foreign enemy, as in Isaiah 29:5 , or, possibly, the native oppressor ( Isaiah 1:23 ; Isaiah 5:1-30 :93, etc.)—a still more tearful evil. "The scorner" is the godless man, who scoffs at religion ( Isaiah 28:14 , Isaiah 28:22 ). Both classes would be "consumed" and "brought to naught" when the new state of things was established. All that watch for iniquity ; i.e. "all those who, for the furtherance of their iniquitous schemes, rise up early and late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness" ( Psalms 127:2 ).