Thomas Aquinas

I will send him to a deceitful nation. Here he describes the one who is deserving of scourges, both as to the fault: a deceitful nation, because it does not keep its promise: all that the Lord has spoken, we will do (Exod 19:8); and as to the sentence, the people of my wrath, that is, whom I have already judged fit to be punished, I will send, I will inspire you to be fit to be punished: the Lord said to me: go up to this land, and destroy it (2 Kgs 18:25); to, that is, against. To take away. …

Commentary on Isaiah ↗