Isaiah 10:5

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 (H1945), God by this particle summoning the Assyrian to fulfill His will; but Maurer, Woe to the] Assyrian! He is the rod and staff of mine anger (my instrument in punishing, Jeremiah 51:20; Psalms 17:13) In their hands is mine indignation' (Horsley, after Jerome). But the English version accords better with the Hebrew accents, which disjoin "and the staff," etc., from "mine anger." For "and," the margin, 'though,' may be substituted. Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, though the...

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 discourse is occupied with this doctrine, that all the afflictions which shall be brought upon them by the _Assyrians _are a temporary scourge inflicted by God, but that unbelievers, after having too freely indulged themselves, will at length be brought to submission. הוי (_hoi_) is sometimes an interjection expressive of lamentation, _Ah! _Sometimes it denotes addressing, _O! _Sometimes it means, as the old translator rendered it, _Wo to_. But here it cannot be explained in any other way than that God calls the _Assyrians_, or assumes the character of one who sighs, because he is compelled to inflict punishment on his people by means of the _Assyrians _ But when I more clos

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 hypocrisy, and bring them nearer to him; but is that Sennacherib's design? No; he designs to gratify his own covetousness and ambition. The Assyrian boasts what great things he has done to other nations, by his own policy and power. He knows not that it is God who makes him what he is, and puts the staff into his hand. He had done all this with ease; none moved the wing, or cried as birds do when their nests are rifled. Because he conquered Samaria, he thinks Jerusalem would fall of course. It was lamentable that Jerusalem should have set up graven images, and we cannot wonder that she was excelled in them by the heathen. But is it not equally foolish for Christians to emulate the people of the w...

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 this prophecy was delivered after the taking of Samaria by Shalmaneser; which was in the sixth year of the reign of Hezekiah: and as the former part of it foretells the invasion of Sennacherib, and the destruction of his army, which makes the whole subject of this chapter it must have been delivered before the _fourteenth_ of the same reign. _THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND_ - "The staff in whose hand"] The word הוא _hu_, the staff _itself_, in this place seems to embarrass the sentence. I omit it on the authority of the Alexandrine copy of the _Septuagint_: n

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, Isaiah 10:11, Isaiah 10:18, Isaiah 10:20; Jeremiah 48:1; Ezekiel 13:2. The Vulgate so understands it here: _Vae Assur_; and the Septuagint

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

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 his people; or as threatening him with ruin. So the Targum, Septuagint, and all the Oriental versions render it, "woe to the Assyrian"; wherefore this, and what follows, serve to comfort the people of God; that though they should be carried captive by the Assyrians, yet they should be utterly destroyed, and a remnant of the Jews should be saved. The Assyrian monarch is called the "rod of God's anger", because he was made use of by him as an instrument to chastise and correct Israel for their sins: AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND IS MINE INDIGNATION; that is, the staff which was in the hand of the king of Assyria, and his army, with which they smote the people of Israel, was no other than the wr...

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

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 that this was Sargon, the father of Sennacherib....