Isaiah 2:10
10. Poetical form of expressing that, such were their sins, they would be obliged by God's judgments to seek a hiding-place from His wrath (Re 6:15, 16).
dust—equivalent to "caves of the earth," or dust (Isa 2:19). for fear, &c.—literally, "from the face of the terror of the Lord."Isaiah 2:19
19. The fulfilment answers exactly to the threat (Isa 2:10).
they—the idol-worshippers. caves—abounding in Judea, a hilly country; hiding-places in times of alarm (1Sa 13:6). shake . . . earth—and the heavens also (Heb 12:26). Figure for severe and universal judgments.Isaiah 2:21
Revelation of John 6:16-17
16. from the face— (Ps 34:16). On the whole verse, compare Ho 10:8; Lu 23:30.
17. Literally, "the day, the great (day)," which can only mean the last great day. After the Lord has exhausted all His ordinary judgments, the sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts, and still sinners are impenitent, the great day of the Lord itself' shall come. Mt 24:6-29 plainly forms a perfect parallelism to the six seals, not only in the events, but also in the order of their occurrence: Mt 24:3, the first seal; Mt 24:6, the second seal; Mt 24:7, the third seal; Mt 24:7, end, the fourth seal; Mt 24:9, the fifth seal, the persecutions and abounding iniquity under which, as well as consequent judgments accompanied with gospel preaching to all nations as a witness, are particularly detailed, Mt 24:9-28; Mt 24:29, the sixth seal.
to stand—to stand justified, and not condemned before the Judge. Thus the sixth seal brings us to the verge of the Lord's coming. The ungodly "tribes of the earth" tremble at the signs of His immediate approach. But before He actually inflicts the blow in person, "the elect" must be "gathered "out.