Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. (Isaiah 29:6)
Jerusalem was to be visited with the judgments of God. Similar language is frequently employed in describing moments when God reveals Himself (Ex. 19:16; Ps. 77:18; Heb. 12:18, 19; Rev. 8:5; 11:19; 16:18). Here the words may be a figurative representation of the terrors of war, or they may be a literal description of some terrible convulsion of nature that burst upon the Assyrian hosts (see on 2 Kings 19:35).