Isaiah 9:12

12. The Syrians before All enemies to Israel were to be combined: Syria (as above explained) on the north, fighting now as subjects of Assyria; and the Philistines on the southwest.

With open mouth The figure is strong. See the full description of the array against Israel in 2 Kings 16:9. Hints of Syria’s old enmity are seen, also, in 2 Chronicles 28:22-23.

For all this his anger is not turned away Here is resumed the refrain of Isaiah 5:25. It means that their impenitence still continued, and, to appearance, was likely to become unalterably confirmed.

But his hand is stretched out still God inflicts one stroke after another, and waits for penitence; and it failing, he revisits with still another stroke to the same end.