Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 10:5
O (e) Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
(e) God calls for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance.
O (e) Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
(e) God calls for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance.
Verse Isaiah 10:5. _O ASSYRIAN_ - "Ho to the Assyrian"] Here begins a new and distinct prophecy, continued to the end of the _twelfth_ chapter: and it appears from Isaiah 10:9 of this chapter, that t...
O ASSYRIAN - The word הוי _hôy_, is commonly used to denounce wrath, or to indicate approaching calamity; as an interjection of threatening; Isaiah 1:4. ‘Wo sinful nation;’ Isaiah 10:8,...
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...
O ASSYRIAN. Not woe to the Assyrian. That woe comes later (Compare Isaiah 17:12, and Isaiah 33:1), after the latest woes on Ephraim and Judah. This is. Divine summons. ASSYRIAN. The monuments tell us...
Jehovah's plan contrasted with Assyria's purpose....
Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30) Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle against North Israel The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
_O Assyrian_ HO ASSHUR, the name both of the people and its national god. The god being little more than the personified genius of the nation, we might almost venture to suppose that he is here direct...
O ASSYRIAN, &C.— We have here the fourth section of the fifth sermon, which reaches to the end of this chapter, and which is two-fold; containing, _first,_ a proposition in this verse, and _secondly,_...
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...
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. O ASSYRIAN, THE ROD OF MINE ANGER, AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND IS MINE INDIGNATION - rather, 'What, ho [ howy (H1...
5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
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...
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...
O ASSYRIAN. — The words open, as has been said above, a perfectly distinct section. Assyria had been named in connection with the Syro-Ephraim alliance against Judah (Isaiah 7:17; Isaiah 8:7); but thi...
הֹ֥וי אַשּׁ֖וּר שֵׁ֣בֶט אַפִּ֑י וּ מַטֶּה ־ה֥
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...
_Woe. Or come on, Heus, though (Calmet) ho is ordinarily rendered, alas! It here indicates that God makes use of this scourge with regret, and will afterwards consign it to the flames. (Haydock) --- T...
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...
5._O Assyrian. _What now follows relates to the threatening of punishment, but at the same time mingles some consolation for alleviating the distresses of the godly. Indeed, the greater part of the di...
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...
O ASSYRIAN, THE ROD OF MINE ANGER,..... Either as calling him to come against the land of Israel to spoil it, so Kimchi; or as grieving that he was obliged to make use of him in such a manner against...
_O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation._ Ver. 5. _O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger._] Or, Woe to the Assyrian; or, _Heu Assur,_ Alas, the Assyrian! _q.d....
_O Assyrian_, &c. We have here the fourth section of the fifth sermon, which reaches to the end of this chapter, and which is two-fold; containing, 1st, A proposition in this verse; and, 2d, The unfol...
WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...
O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in their hand is Mine indignation, literally, "Woe to Asshur (which is) the rod of My wrath, and the staff, that in their hand, Mine indignation. " The...
O ASSYRIAN: Or, woe to the Assyrian: _Heb._ Asshur ASSYRIAN: _ Heb._ Ashur AND THE: Or, though...
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...
O ASSYRIAN: so it is God's call or invitation to him to take the charge, and set upon the work. Or, _Woe to the Assyrian_ ! because though he do my work, yet he doth it in a wicked manner, and for wic...
Isaiah 10:5 Woe H1945 Assyria H804 rod H7626 anger H639 staff H4294 hand H3027 indignation H2195 O Assyrian - or, Woe to the Assyrian, Heb.
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...
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...
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...
Genesis 10:11; Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 14:5; Isaiah 14:6; Isaiah 8:4;...
O Assyrian — This is God's invitation to him to take the charge, and set upon the work. The rod — The instrument of mine anger, wherewith I shall chastise my people. Anger — Mine anger against my peop...