Isaiah 10:34 - Exposition

He shall cut down ; or, one shall eat down ; Jehovah being, no doubt, intended. Lebanon (comp. Ezekiel 31:3 , "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon"). Here the comparison is enlarged, and Assyria appears as Lebanon itself with all its cedar woods. By a mighty one ; rather, a glorious one (comp. Isaiah 33:21 , where the word here used —adir—is an epithet of Jehovah).