Isaiah 5:25

25. The declaration just made is virtually repeated here, probably as a backing to the closing refrain. The verbs of this verse are of the prophetic preterite for future; that is, the ideal standpoint is in the future, from which the prophet sees, in the past, wave after wave of divine judgment rapidly following each other over the nation.

For all this In all this, or notwithstanding all this, God shall inflict still other judgments. Though the blows be heavy, his anger, or ethical intuition, abates not, because his judgments do not, as intended, bring the people to repentance.

Leviticus 26:18; Leviticus 26:23; Leviticus 26:27. (See this dirge-like strain repeated in Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17, and Isaiah 10:4.)