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 , sed confer, Proverbs 1:31 ; Proverbs 31:16 , Proverbs 31:31 ." - Secker. The Chaldee renders the word פרי peri by עיבדי obadey , works; which seems to be the true sense; and I have followed it. - L. read more
Like a valiant man "Strongly seated" - Twelve MSS. agree with the Keri in reading כביר kabbir , without the א aleph . And Sal. ben Melec and Kimchi thus explain it:" them who dwelled in a great and strong place I have brought down to the ground." read more
No wood "Its master" - I have here given the meaning, without attempting to keep to the expression of the original, עץ לא lo ets , "the no-wood;" that which is not wood like itself, but of a quite different and superior nature. The Hebrews have a peculiar way of joining the negative particle לא lo to a noun, to signify in a strong manner a total negation of the thing expressed by the noun. "How hast thou given help ( כח ללא lelo choach ) to the no-strength? And saved the arm... read more
The Lord "Jehovah" - For אדני Adonai , fifty-two MSS., eleven editions, and two of my own, ancient, read יהוה , Yehovah , as in other cases. And under his glory - That is, all that he could boast of as great and strong in his army, (Sal. ben Melec in loc.), expressed afterwards, Isaiah 10:18 , by the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field. read more
And it shall burn and devour his thorns "And he shall burn and consume his thorn" - The briers and thorns are the common people; the glory of his forest are the nobles and those of highest rank and importance. See note on Isaiah 9:17 , and compare Ezekiel 20:47 . The fire of God's wrath shall destroy them, both great and small; it shall consume them from the soul to the flesh; a proverbial expression; soul and body, as we say; it shall consume them entirely and altogether; and the few... read more
The remnant shalt return - unto the mighty God - גבור אל El gibbor , the mighty or conquering God; the Messiah, the same person mentioned in Isaiah 10:6 ; of the preceding chapter. read more
For though thy people Israel - I have endeavored 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. 1. S. Maerlius... read more
After the manner of Egypt "In the way of Egypt" - I think there is a designed ambiguity in these words. Sennacherib, soon after his return from his Egyptian expedition, which, I imagine, took him up three years, invested Jerusalem. He is represented by the prophet as lifting up his rod in his march from Egypt, and threatening the people of God, as Pharaoh and the Egyptians had done when they pursued them to the Red Sea. But God in his turn will lift up his rod over the sea, as he did at that... read more
The indignation "Mine indignation" - Indignatio mea , Vulg. ἡ οργη , Sept. μου η οργη κατα σου , MS. Pachom. Μου ἡ οργη ἡ κατα σου , MS. 1. D. 2. So that זעמי zaami , or הזעם hazzaam , as one MS. has it, seems to be the true reading. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 10:9-11 ; 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... read more