Verse 4
4. Without me Apart from my help. The moral is, Leave all else, and flee to me. There is no other door to safety.
They shall bow down Sinking for very shame and self-reproach lower than other captives, or even to lie beneath the slain in war. The refrain is again chanted, and the series of strophes pointing to the captivity of Israel closes. But black as the prophecy is for Israel, it becomes blacker for Assyria, its foe and captor, in the next piece recited by Isaiah. However dark the shades settle on Israel God’s own chosen but erring ones somehow they retire, measurably in virtue of a better few still preserved among them.
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