Isaiah 10:22

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. THOUGH THY PEOPLE ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, (YET) A REMNANT OF THEM (HEBREW, AMONG THEM) SHALL RETURN. Paul explains the sense, , 'Though Israel be now numerous as the sand, a remnant only of them shall return'-the great majority shall perish. The reason is added. THE CONSUMPTION DECREED SHALL OVERFLOW WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS - `because the consumption (the complete destruction) decreed (literally, decided on) shall over flow (; ) with justice (shall bring upon sinners an overflowing flood of justice,...

22._For though thy people be. _He casts down hypocrites from foolish confidence; for they reckoned it enough to be the descendants of holy Abraham according to the flesh, and, therefore, on the sole ground of their birth, they wished to be accounted holy. Yet he exhorts the godly to patience, that they may learn to await calmly that calamity and diminution of their number, lest, when it took place, it should be unexpected, and give them uneasiness. He therefore comforts them, that they may not be grieved at so great desolation; for the Lord will at least collect _a remnant _of it. _The consumption decreed. _ כלה (_chalah_) means _to finish_, and it means also _to consume_. The latter is more appropriate. He calls this diminution of the people a _consumption_, and one that is _completed_; for he employs exaggerated language, the import of which is, that they were not far

20-34 By our afflictions we may learn not to make creatures our confidence. Those only can with comfort stay upon God, who return to him in truth, not in pretence and profession only. God will justly bring this wasting away on a provoking people, but will graciously set bounds to it. It is against the mind and will of God, that his people, whatever happens, should give way to fear. God's anger against his people is but for a moment; and when that is turned from us, we need not fear the fury of man. The rod with which he corrected his people, shall not only be laid aside, but thrown into the fire. To encourage God's people, the prophet puts them in mind of what God had formerly done against the enemies of his church. God's people shall be delivered from the Assyrians. Some think it looks to the deliverance of the Jews out of their captivity; and further yet, to the redemption of believer...

Verse Isaiah 10:22. _FOR THOUGH THY PEOPLE ISRAEL_] I have endeavoured to keep to the letter of the text as nearly as I can in this obscure passage; but it is remarkable that neither the _Septuagint_, nor St. _Paul_, Romans 9:28, who, except in a few words of no great importance, follows them nearly in this place, nor any one of the ancient Versions, take any notice of the word שטף _shoteph, overflowing_; which seems to give an idea not easily reconcilable with those with which it is here joined. _I. S. Maerlius_ (Schol. Philolog. ad Selecta S. Cod. loca) conjectures that the two last letters of this word are by mistake transposed, and that the true reading is שפט _shophet, judging_, with strict justice. The _Septuagint_ might think this sufficiently expressed by εν δικαιοσυ...

FOR THOUGH ... - In this verse, and in Isaiah 10:23. the prophet expresses positively the idea that “but” a remnant of the people should be preserved amidst the calamities. He had said Isaiah 10:20, that a remnant should return to God. He now carries forward the idea, and states that only a remnant should be preserved out of the multitude, however great it was. Admitting that the number was then very great, yet the great mass of the nation would be cut off, and only a small portion would remain. THY PEOPLE ISRAEL - Or rather, ‘thy people, O Israel,’ making it a direct address to the Jews, rather than to God. BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA - The sands of the sea cannot be numbered, and hence, t

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 by the threat of a "day of desolation," when those who have refused to make God their Refuge will have no resource, but to go into captivity with the "prisoners," or to perish with the "slain." A foreign conquest, accompanied by slaughter, and the deportation of captives, is not obscurely intimated. ISAIAH 10:1 WOE UNTO THEM THAT DECREE UNRIGHTEOUS DECREES (comp. Isaiah 1:17

FOR THOUGH THY PEOPLE ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA,.... These words are spoken either by the Lord to the prophet, calling Israel his people; or by the prophet to Hezekiah, as Jarchi and Kimchi think; or they may be rendered thus, "for though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea" s; that is, innumerable, as was promised to Abraham, Genesis 22:17: [YET] A REMNANT OF THEM SHALL RETURN; or "be converted in it" t, to the Messiah; or "be saved", as the apostle interprets it, Romans 9:27; a remnant is a few, as Kimchi explains it, out of a great number: it signifies, that the majority of the Jewish nation should reject the Messiah, only a few of them should believe in him; and these should certainly believe in him, and be saved by him; and that for the following reason

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 of his army announced (Isaiah 10:12)_ 3. _The punishment (Isaiah 10:16)_ 4. _The return of the remnant (Isaiah 10:20)_ 5. _The faithful remnant comforted (Isaiah 10:24)_ 6. The Assyrians march against Jerusalem (Isaiah 10:28

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 be fixed. Non-Isaianic material appears to be present in it. ISAIAH 10:5. Assyria is Yahweh's rod to smite any nation that has aroused His anger, but, inspired by lust of blood, plans to exterminate many peoples, and boastfully thinks to destroy Jerusalem with her divine nonentities, less powerful than those of cities she has seized. So, when she has served His purpose, He will punish her boastfulness in ascribing her conquests to her own wisdom and might. She has abolished the boundaries of subject peoples, merging them in her empire; plundered their treasures and abased their rulers, robbing the nations as a man takes the eggs from a nest abandoned by the panic-stricken birds, n

THOUGH, &C. Quoted in Romans 9:27; Romans 9:28. AS THE SAND, &C. Figure of speech _Paraemia_. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 22:17; Genesis 32:12, &c). CONSUMPTION. full end, or finish. Hebrew. _killayon._ Reference to Pentateuch. Occurs only here, and Deuteronomy 28:65. App-92. WITH. in....