Isaiah 10:5-19
1599 Geneva Bible
5 ¶ O [a]Assyria, the rod of my wrath: and the staff in their hands is mine indignation.
6 I will send [b]him to a dissembling nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them under feet like the mire in the street.
7 But he thinketh not so, neither doth his heart esteem it so: but he imagineth to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether Kings?
9 Is not Calno as [c]Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 Like as mine hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, seeing their idols were above Jerusalem, and above Samaria:
11 Shall not I, as I have done to Samaria, and to the idols thereof, so do to Jerusalem, and to the idols thereof?
12 ¶ But when the Lord hath accomplished [d]all his work upon mount Zion and Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart [e]of the king of Assyria, and his glorious and proud looks,
13 Because he said, By the power of mine own hand have I done it, and by my wisdom, because I am wise: therefore I have removed the borders of the people, and have spoiled their treasures, and have pulled down the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14 And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one that gathereth eggs that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none to move the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.
15 Shall the [f]axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw exalt itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should lift up itself against him that taketh it up, or the staff should exalt itself as it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord God of hosts send among his fat men leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be as a [g]fire, and the Holy one thereof as a flame, and it shall burn, and devour [h]his thorns and his briers in one day:
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful fields both soul [i]and flesh: and he shall be as the [j]fainting of a standard bearer.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may tell them.
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- Isaiah 10:5 God calleth for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance.
- Isaiah 10:6 That is, the Assyrians against the Jews, which are but hypocrites: and in the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God, and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God’s intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians’ purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves: thus in respect of God’s justice, it is God’s work, but in respect of their own malice, it is the work of the devil.
- Isaiah 10:9 Seeing that I have overcome as well one city as another, so that none could resist, shall Jerusalem be able to escape mine hands?
- Isaiah 10:12 When he hath sufficiently chastised his people (for he beginneth at his own house) then will he burn the rods.
- Isaiah 10:12 Meaning of Sennacherib.
- Isaiah 10:15 Here we see that no creature is able to do anything, but as God appointeth him, and that they are all but his instruments to do his work, though the intentions be divers, as verse 6.
- Isaiah 10:17 Meaning, that God is a light to comfort his people, and a fire to burn his enemies.
- Isaiah 10:17 That is, the Assyrians.
- Isaiah 10:18 To wit, body and soul utterly.
- Isaiah 10:18 When the battle is lost and the standard taken.
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