In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
21. And it shall come to pass. This passage has tortured the minds of many commentators, and various interpretations have been offered by various writers. Some think that this relates to the sun and the stars, and others, that it relates to the devils, who will be punished along with the wicked. Others refer it to the Jews, on whom God had bestowed a remarkable privilege.
These verses, as those before, plainly speak, I. Comfort to saints. They may be driven, by the common calamities of the places where they live, into the uttermost parts of the earth, or perhaps they are forced thither for their religion; but there they are singing, not sighing.
Commenting on Isaiah 24:16-23
And they shall be gathered together,.... First to the battle of the great day of God Almighty at Armageddon, Rev 16:14 and there being overcome and taken, they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; in the prison or the grave, and in hell; as captives are, till such time as something is...