Verse 5
ASSYRIA’S DESTRUCTION PREDICTED; JEHOVAH’S KINGDOM UNDER MESSIAH; AND A HYMN OF PRAISE THEREON, Isaiah 10:5 to Isaiah 12:6.
5. The pieces of prophecy beginning here and closing with chap. 12 are with fair reason thought to belong to the period of Ahaz. The objections to this, found in Isaiah 10:9-11; Isaiah 10:28-32, will be considered in the comments there. High and miraculous prophetic power in our seer is assumed throughout, of course, as hitherto.
Judgment upon Israel has been fearfully depicted as seen in vision; and now upon Assyria, the instrument of Israel’s calamities, (Isaiah 10:15,) like judgments are denounced.
O Assyrian Woe to, or, as some suppose, Ho, what ho! address in the second person rather than in the third.
Rod of mine anger The instrument to execute it.
The staff in their hand The sceptre he wields over punishment-deserving Israel is the sign of my indignation. The general term “Assyrian” includes king and people.
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