Isaiah 14:31

As in Isaiah 14:29 the prophet had rebuked the premature rejoicing of the Philistines, so here he calls them to public lamentation in view of the advancing enemy.

thou… art dissolved Render as an imper. melt away, entire Philistia! Smokemay be either a symbol of war (Jeremiah 1:13 f.) or it may be a vivid picture of the burning villages that mark the track of the invader. The phrase from the northpoints almost unmistakeably to the Assyrians (see on ch. Isaiah 10:27).

noneshall be … times Most critics render: there is no straggler in his battalions (cf. ch. Isaiah 5:27). The last word closely resembles that for "appointed times," but is differently vocalised, and does not occur elsewhere.