Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. Peace. Sentinels were established on the hills.—Festivals. S. Jerom quotes the B. of Paral. as saying ( Calmet.) that the Jews could not observe the Passover in the first month. But they did it in the second, after they knew that Sennacherib was slain. 2 Chronicles 32. Bible.—This passage does not, however, appear at present in Scripture, and it could not speak of the second month ( Calmet.) following Nisan, ( Bible.) as the king was slain forty-five days (Tobit 1:22. Greek 5) after his return to Ninive; and some time must have elapsed before he could get thither, and the news arrive in Judea. Calmet.—Belial; the wicked one, that is the Assyrian. Challoner.
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.