EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
Isaiah 10:12
The *Assyrians do not realise that they are merely a temporary tool in God’s hand. The *Lord, not people, controls history.
The *Assyrians do not realise that they are merely a temporary tool in God’s hand. The *Lord, not people, controls history.
Verse Isaiah 10:12. _THE LORD_ - "JEHOVAH"] For אדני _Adonai, fourteen_ MSS. and _three editions_ read יהוה _Yehovah_. _THE FRUIT_ - "The effect"] " פרי _peri_, f. צבי _tsebi_, vid. Isaiah 13:19, _s...
WHEREFORE ... - In this verse God, by the prophet, threatens punishment to the king of Assyria for his pride, and wicked designs. HIS WHOLE WORK - His entire plan in regard to the punishment of the Je...
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...
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...
WHEREFORE. And....
The verse seems to interrupt what might well have been a single speech of the Assyrian King, by a threat of the doom reserved for him. The arrogant assumption that Jehovah is a mere tribal deity, who...
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...
WHEREFORE IT SHALL COME TO PASS— We have in this verse the punishment which God decreed for the king of Assyria, after he had performed all that work for which God raised him up. Bishop Newton observe...
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...
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 stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of...
5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
WORK] i.e. of judgment, or punishment....
WHEREFORE IT SHALL COME TO PASS... — Better, _And it shall come to pass_ ... The boast of the proud king is interrupted by the reassertion of the fact that he is but an instrument in the hand of Jehov...
וְ הָיָ֗ה כִּֽי ־יְבַצַּ֤ע אֲדֹנָי֙ אֶת ־כָּל
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...
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...
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...
Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed (h) his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart (i) of the king of Assyria, and the...
_Works. Humbling and terrifying Ezechias and his subjects, who were reduced to great distress, in order to avert the impending war. (Haydock) --- Eyes. The Assyrians were punished in their turn._...
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...
12._But it shall come to pass. _Hitherto the Prophet had explained what would be the pride of the Assyrian, after having obtained a victory over Israel; but now he foretells what will happen to the As...
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...
WHEREFORE IT SHALL COME TO PASS,.... It shall surely be; what God has purposed in his heart, and published in his word, shall certainly be fulfilled: [THAT] WHEN THE LORD HATH PERFORMED HIS WHOLE WOR...
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 stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory o...
_Wherefore_ Because of this impudent blasphemy; _when the Lord hath performed his whole work_ Of chastising his people as long as he sees fit. _I will punish the fruit of the stout heart_, &c. Here it...
Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, Assyria being His instrument of chastisement upon those whom He had chosen for His pe...
WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...
PUNISH: _ Heb._ visit upon OF THE STOUT HEART: _ Heb._ of the greatness of the heart...
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...
WHEREFORE; because of this impudent blasphemy. HATH PERFORMED HIS WHOLE WORK, of chastising his people so long and so much as he sees fit and necessary for them. PUNISH, Heb. _visit_, to wit, in wrath...
Isaiah 10:12 Lord H136 performed H1214 (H8762) work H4639 Mount H2022 Zion H6726 Jerusalem H3389 punish H6485 ...
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...
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...
THAT WHEN A permanent method in the divine government of the earth. Israel is always the centre of the divine counsels earthward (Deuteronomy 32:8). The Gentile nations are permitted to afflict Israe...
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...
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...
_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...
_When the Lord hath performed His whole work upon Mount Zion_ GOD’S TWO-SIDED PROVIDENCE 1. God designed to do good to Zion and Jerusalem by this providence. When God lets loose the enemies of His...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Peter 4:17; Daniel 4:37; Ezekiel 31:10; Ezekiel 31:14; Isaiah 10:1
Wherefore — Because of this impudent blasphemy. His work — Of chastising his people so long as he sees fit. Looks — His insolent words and carriage....