Isaiah 66:18

18. For I know their works and their thoughts There is great abruptness in these words, and they indicate very excited emotion. Exact rendering from the original makes the words stand thus: And I their works and their thoughts it is come to gather all the nations and the tongues and they shall come and see my glory And I This is followed by nothing. The ellipsis may be filled by I know, or, I abhor, or, I know how to punish, or, I will consume, taking this word from the “consumed” of the preceding verse. Each of these supplied words has its advocate among exegetes; others might also be added. It seems very fairly proper to supply the last here mentioned, I will consume. Connexion with the foregoing verse suggests, and not a little authorizes it: “I will consume their works and their devices.” What was so abruptly cut short off, through panting excitement, as it were, occasioned by a sudden emotion of abhorrence, is thus fittingly supplied: “It shall come. The decision is made. All nations (outside from apostate Israel) and tongues (from among the Gentiles) shall witness my glory, (that is, my almighty power,) manifested in the consumption of these apostates;” or, to “see my glory” may consist of conquests over apostate foes, and achievements of grace in his Church.