Isaiah 10:33,34

Just when the Assyrian is in sight of his goal, Jehovah smites him down. The description naturally passes into figurative and somewhat vague language. The image is that of a stately forest laid low by the axe-man.

Isaiah 10:33 . The Lord Jehovah of Hosts, as in Isaiah 10:16.

The "high ones of stature," and the "lofty ones" (R.V.) are the great trees; the epithets keep within the limits of the figure. For be humbledread lie low.

Isaiah 10:34. the thickets of the forest(R.V.) cf. ch. Isaiah 9:18. The verb in the first clause is probably passive: "shall be cut down." Lebanon Better, the Lebanon. Lebanon means "the white (mountain)" either from its snows or its chalk cliffs and in Hebr. prose always retains the art.; here, however, the reference is to its forests, which supply a figure for the Assyrian army.

a mighty one or "a majestic One" Jehovah Himself.