18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

..trees of Yahweh's planting are dwelling securely.

'To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he might be glorified' (Isa 61:3).

'Yahweh also shall save the tents of Judah first'. (Zech 12:7)

19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Hail coming down on the forest.

An aggregation of wild, uncultivated trees constitutes "a forest." This is prophetically obnoxious to the storm of hail, which descends upon it. This shows that when hail descends on forest trees, there is no peace, safety, or tranquillity, to the wicked represented thereby.

...A prophecy couched in such terms as these indicates nothing but judgment of the severest kind. It is a tempest of the most scathing description imaginable -- a beating down with hail, scorching with lightning, and causing blood to flow.

The prophets give us to understand that by such language as this is signified,

"A mighty and strong one casting down to the earth with the hand."

This interpretation is indicated in Isa. 28: 2; as

"Yahweh hath a mighty and strong one, as a tempest of hail, and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, he shall cast down to the earth with the hand,"

or power of the sword.

....This power is the power of the heaven, the Spirit, congealed (if I may so speak) into spiritual bodies weighing one talent a piece. These are the hailstones and coals of fire which result from the thunder voice of the Most High. They are the electrical congelations of the Spirit which beat down the Assyrian in his latter day overthrow; as it is written,

"And Yahweh shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of anger, and the flame of devouring fire, scattering and tempest and hailstones; for through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be beaten down who smite with a rod," (Isai. xxx. 30).

The Assyrian to be beaten down by these living, precious, and all powerful hailstones, is the Gog of Ezekiel, the Fourth Beast of Daniel, and the Eighth Head in alliance with the Ten Horns of John. These are destroyed by the saints when judgment is given to them; they are mighty and strong who fall upon them as a plague of hail and a destroying storm upon the forest.

Eureka 8.4.

20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

... it is written,

"Sow beside all waters,"

and

"Do good to all men as ye have opportunity."

Many a seed falls on the wayside, and comes to nothing: but we must scatter the handfuls none the less.

Bro Roberts