He shall come up as clouds, etc. It is needless to name the subject; who can it be but the host of Jehovah's warlike instruments? (For the first figure, comp. Ezekiel 38:16; for the second, Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 66:15; and for the third, Habakkuk 1:8; Deuteronomy 28:49.
) Woe unto us! etc. The cry of lamentation of the Jews (comp. Jeremiah 4:20; Jeremiah 9:18).