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Isaiah 10:6

I will send him, &c. Rather: I send him against a profane nation (R.V.). See ch. Isaiah 9:17. In a general description of the mission of Assyria it is not advisable to limit the reference to Judah or Israel. The meaning is that Jehovah sends the Assyrian against any nation that deserves punishment.

people of my wrath See Isaiah 9:19.

like the mire of the streets Cf. Psalms 18:42; Micah 7:10.

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See also Isaiah 10:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL SEND HIM - Implying that he was entirely in the hand of God, and subject to his direction; and showing that God has control over kings and conqueror’s; Proverbs 21:1. AGAINST AN HYPOCRITICAL NA...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HYPOCRITICAL. impious, profane, godless,. or irreligious. Compare Isaiah 9:17 with Isaiah 33:14, the only other occurance in Isaiah....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WILL SEND HIM, &C.— The enarration follows the proposition; the first part of which, extending to the 13th verse, contains, _first,_ the hypothesis and the occasion of the design of this king; namel...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SCOURGE OF GOD TEXT: Isaiah 10:5-11 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wra...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the stree...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    10:6 hypocritical (a-7) Or 'profane,' 'impious.' see ch. 33.14....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HYPOCRITICAL] RV 'profane.' NATION.. PEOPLE] not merely referring to Judah, but to be understood generally: the Assyrian has been commissioned in the divine providence to punish godless nations. Simil...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Assyrians do not recognise the *Lord as the one real God. But the *Lord is still going to use them against this ‘nation’. That is, against Judah. God had chosen Judah to be his special people. Bu...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL SEND HIM AGAINST AN HYPOCRITICAL NATION. — Better, _impious._ The verb admits of the various renderings, “I will send,” “I did send,” and “I am wont to send.” The last seems to give the best me...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ גֹ֤וי חָנֵף֙ אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֔נּוּ וְ עַל ־עַ֥ם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I will send (f) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Deceitful. Hebrew, "hypocritical," joining my worship with that of idols. (Calmet) --- They had solemnly promised to serve the Lord, Exodus xix. 8. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._To a hypocritical nation. _He proceeds with the former statement, by which he called _the Assyrian the rod of God’s indignation_; for as the father does not in vain take up the _rod_, but has this...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WILL SEND HIM AGAINST A HYPOCRITICAL NATION,.... The people of Israel, who might well be called so, since everyone of them was a hypocrite, Isaiah 9:17 pretending to love, fear, and serve the Lord,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the street...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will send him_ By my providence, giving him both opportunity and inclination to undertake this expedition; _against a hypocritical nation_ Or, _a profane nation_, as the word חנ Šrather signifies;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will send him against an hypocritical nation, one that is impure, corrupt, and wicked, AND AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF MY WRATH WILL I GIVE HIM A CHARGE, bidding Assyria smite Israel for its sins, TO TAKE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TO TREAD THEM DOWN: _ Heb._ to lay them a treading...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL SEND HIM, not by express commission, but by the secret yet powerful conduct of my providence, giving him both occasion and inclination to this expedition. Hypocritical: SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 9:1...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 10:6 send H7971 (H8762) ungodly H2611 nation H1471 people H5971 wrath H5678 charge H6680 (H8762) seize...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:6 A GODLESS NATION. Unbelieving Israel (Isaiah 9:17)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 22:43; Isaiah 10:13; Isaiah 10:14; Isaiah 19:17; Isaiah 22:5

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Send him — By my providence, giving him both occasion and inclination to this expedition....

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