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AND MY HAND HATH FOUND, AS A NEST - By a beautiful and striking figure
here, the Assyrian monarch is represented as describing the ease with
which he had subdued kingdoms, and rifled them of their tre...
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CHAPTER 10
The Assyrian, His invasion of Immanuel's land, and His end
1. _The first four verses belong to the preceding chapter. A
description of the Assyrian enemy (Isaiah 10:5)_ 2. _The overthrow o...
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ASSYRIA'S BOASTFULNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This prophecy, so far as it
is Isaiah's, must be later than the capture of Carchemish in 717 and
before Sennacherib's invasion in 701. Narrower limits cannot...
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FOUND AS. NEST. Supply the Ellipsis thus: "found [means to reach] as.
nest". peeped. See note on Isaiah 8:19....
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The second imaginary speech of the king of Assyria. He ascribes his
successes (and how easy have they been! Isaiah 10:14) solely to his
own power and wisdom. Comp. the self-glorification of the prince...
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The magnificent simile represents the ease with which the Assyrians
had rifled the countries of their treasures, and the panic terror
which their approach everywhere produced.
_or peeped_ R.V. CHIRPE...
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DISCOURSE: 874
PRIDE AND DOWNFALL OF THE ASSYRIAN MONARCH
Isaiah 10:12. It shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath
performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will
punish the fru...
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FOR HE SAITH, &C.— From these to the 20th verse we have a more full
exposition and confirmation of what had gone before; particularly, the
pride of the Assyrian, and his vain boasting joined with it—i...
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SMITING OF THE SCOURGE
TEXT: Isaiah 10:12-19
12
Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed
his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the
fruit of the s...
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And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one
gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there
was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peep...
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The helplessness of the world before the Assyrians is vividly imaged.
LEFT] RV 'forsaken.' PEEPED] RV 'chirped': cp. Isaiah 8:19....
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5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah
speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 10
GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST EVIL LAWS
V1 *Woe to those who make crue...
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To *seize the wealth of the nations also means that they cannot buy
more arms to defend themselves. The king is like someone who takes
eggs from a nest. This picture in words means that the king preve...
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MY HAND HATH FOUND AS A NEST. — The inscription of Sargon presents
an almost verbal parallelism (_Records of the Past, vii._ 28). In
other documents the king looks on himself as a colossal fowler, and...
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וַ תִּמְצָ֨א כַ † קֵּ֤ן ׀ יָדִי֙ לְ...
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CHAPTER IX
ATHEISM OF FORCE AND ATHEISM OF FEAR
ABOUT 721 B.C.
Isaiah 10:5
IN chapter 28 Isaiah, speaking in the year 725 when Salmanassar IV was
marching on Samaria, had explained to the politicia...
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THE MIGHTY LAID LOW
Isaiah 10:5-19
This question is addressed to the Assyrian invader, described as God's
staff and rod. He was the means of inflicting deserved penalty on the
world of that age, and...
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This is a prophecy of judgment on Assyria, and is full of interest.
Assyria is the power which Jehovah is using for the punishment of His
people, but because it fails to understand its true relation t...
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_Nest. Some put these words in the mouth of God. (Tertullian) (Abdias
4.) --- But they shew the insolence of Sennacherib._...
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I pray the Reader to remark with me, how the Lord taketh to himself
the whole of the destruction of Judah. If the Assyrian destroy the
kingdom, it is because the Lord hath commissioned and appointed i...
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14._And my hand hath found as a nest. _He adds, that it cost him no
trouble to vanquish kings and amass their wealth; and he illustrates
this by a comparison. As if one were to seek _a nest and find o...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12.
In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to
Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...
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AND MY HAND HATH FOUND AS A NEST THE RICHES OF THE PEOPLE,.... With
that ease as a man finds a nest of birds, and takes them:
AND AS ONE GATHERETH EGGS [THAT ARE] LEFT; by the bird, who not
sitting u...
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And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one
gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all the earth; and
there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or pee...
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_For he saith_, &c. “From hence to the twentieth verse we have a
more full exposition and confirmation of what had gone before,
particularly the pride of the Assyrian and his vain boasting in these
ve...
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5-19 See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride,
thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of
Providence. God designs to correct his people for their hypoc...
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HATH FOUND AS A NEST; as one findeth young birds in a nest, the nest
being put for the birds in it, as DEUTERONOMY 32:11. No less easily do
I both find and take them. EGGS THAT ARE LEFT; which the dam...
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Isaiah 10:14 hand H3027 found H4672 (H8799) nest H7064 riches H2428
people H5971 gathers H622 (H8800) eggs...
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CHAPTER ISAIAH 10:5 ASSYRIA WILL ADVANCE AND CONQUER AS A JUDGMENT ON
GOD'S PEOPLE BUT WILL FINALLY BE BROUGHT DOWN, FOR FINAL DELIVERANCE
IS CERTAIN.
In the remainder of this chapter is described God...
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1). GOD FIRST CALLS ON HIS SELECTED INSTRUMENT TO ACT BUT THEN
REBUKES HIM FOR OVERREACTING (ISAIAH 10:5).
In this vivid illustration Assyria is depicted as being the rod of
God's anger. Assyria migh...
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CONTENTS: The commission to invade Judah and its execution.
Threatening of the invaders ruin after serving God's purpose. New
encouragement given to God's people.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: God som...
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The first four verses, are properly a part of the preseding chapter,
and contain a severe reproof of the magistrates who wrested the
judgment of the poor and needy.
Isaiah 10:5. _Oh Assyrian._ Hebrews...
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_And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people_
A PROUD BOAST OF UTTER SUBJUGATION
The Assyrian conqueror has gathered all the earth as one gathers the
eggs from which he has first drive...
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_O Assyrian_
“O ASSYRIAN”
“Ho Asshur,” the name both of the people and its national god.
(_Prof. J. Skinner, D. D._)
THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD POWER
The leading idea of the passage is the contrast...
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MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES
Isaiah 10:7. _Howbeit He meaneth not so, &c._
“Man appoints, but God disappoints,” “Man proposes, but God
disposes,” are proverbs which sum up a good deal of human
experien...
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THE ASSYRIAN INVASION OF JUDAH
Isaiah 10:5. _O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, &c._
This prophecy may be used to illustrate the following truths of
abiding interest.
I. THE POWER OF EMPIRES AND THE...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 10:1
The prophecy begun in Isaiah 9:8 terminates with this stanza, which
contains a warning against injustice and oppression, addressed to
Israel and Judah equally, and accompanied...
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Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from
judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, tha...
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Habakkuk 2:5; Hosea 12:7; Hosea 12:8; Isaiah 5:8; Job 31:25;...
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Eggs — Which the dam left in her nest. Gathered — All the riches
of the earth. An hyperbole not unusual in the mouths of such persons.
Peeped — As birds do, which, when they see the robbing of their
n...