Isaiah:10

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* Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees , and that (note :)Who write and pronounce a wicked sentence to oppress the people : meaning , that the wicked magistrate , who were the chief cause of mischief , would be first punished .(:note ) write grievousness [which ] they have prescribed ; * To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement , and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people , that widowes may be their pray , and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse . * And what will ye do in the day of visitation , and in the desolation [which ] shall come from (note :)That is , from Assyria .(:note ) far ? to whom will ye flee for help ? and where will ye leave your Your riches and authority , that they may be safe and that you may receive them again . glory ? * * O (note :)God calls for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance .(:note ) Assyrian , the rod of my anger , and the staff in their hand is my indignation . * I will send (note :)That is , the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites . In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act : for God 's intention is to chastise them for their amendment , and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves . Thus in respect to God 's justice , it is God 's work , but in respect to their own malice , it is the work of the devil .(:note ) him against an hypocritical nation , and against the people of my wrath will I command him , to take the spoil , and to take the prey , and to tread them down like the mire of the streets . * But he thinketh not so , neither doeth his heart esteeme it so : but he imagineth to destroy and to cut off not a fewe nations . * For he sayeth , Are not my princes altogether Kings ? * [Is ] not Calno as (note :)Seeing that I have overcome one city as well as another , so that none could resist , shall Jerusalem be able to escape my hands ?(:note ) Carchemish ? [is ] not Hamath as Arpad ? [is ] not Samaria as Damascus ? * Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles , seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem , and aboue Samaria : * Shall not I , as I haue done to Samaria , and to the idoles thereof , so doe to Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof ? * Wherefore it shall come to pass , [that ] when the Lord hath performed (note :)When he has sufficiently chastised his people (for he begins at his own house ) then will he burn the rods .(:note ) his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem , I will punish the fruit of the stout heart Meaning of Sennacherib . of the king of Assyria , and the glory of his high looks . * Because he said , By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it , and by my wisdome , because I am wise : therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people , and haue spoyled their treasures , and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a valiant man . * And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people , and as one gathereth egges that are left , so haue I gathered all the earth : and there was none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth , or to whisper . * Shall the (note :)Here we see that no creature is able to do anything , but as God appoints him , and that they are all his instruments to do his work though the intentions are diverse , as in ( Isa_10:6 ).(:note ) axe boast itself against him that heweth with it ? [or ] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it ? as if the rod should shake [itself ] against them that lift it , [or ] as if the staff should lift [itself , as if it were ] no wood . * Therefore shall the Lorde God of hostes send amog his fat men , leannes , &amp ; vnder his glorie he shall kindle a burning , like the burning of fire . * And the light of Israel shall be for a (note :)Meaning that God is a light to comfort his people and a fire to burn his enemies .(:note ) fire , and his Holy One for a flame : and it shall burn and devour That is , the Assyrians . his thorns and his briers in one day ; * And shall consume the glory of his forest , and of his fruitful field , both soul (note :)That is , body and soul utterly .(:note ) and body : and they shall be as when a standardbearer When the battle is lost and the standard taken . fainteth . * And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe fewe , that a childe may tell them . * And it shall come to pass in that day , [that ] the remnant of Israel , and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob , shall no more again lean upon him that smote them ; but shall (note :)This is the end of God 's plagues toward his , to bring them to him , and to forsake all trust in others .(:note ) lean upon the LORD , the Holy One of Israel , in truth . * The remnant shall returne , euen the remnant of Iaakob vnto the mightie God . * For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea , [yet ] a remnant of them shall return : the full end (note :)This small number which seemed to be consumed and yet according to God 's decree is saved , will be sufficient to fill all the world with righteousness .(:note ) decreed shall overflow with righteousness . * For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a full end , even (note :)God will destroy this land as he has determined and later save a small portion .(:note ) determined , in the midst of all the land . * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts , O my people that dwellest in Zion , be not afraid of the Assyrian : he shall smite thee with a rod , and shall lift up his staff against thee , after the manner of (note :)As the Egyptians punished you .(:note ) Egypt . * But yet a very litle time , and the wrath shall be consumed , and mine anger in their destruction . * And the LORD of hosts shall raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of (note :)Read ( Isa_9:4 ).(:note ) Midian at the rock of Oreb : and [as ] his rod [was ] upon the When the Israelites passed through by the lifting up of Moses ' rod , and the enemies were drowned , ( Exo_14:28 ). sea , so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt . * And it shall come to pass in that day , [that ] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder , and his yoke from off thy neck , and the yoke shall be destroyed because of (note :)Because of the promise made to that kingdom , by which Christ 's kingdom was prefigured .(:note ) the anointing . * He is come to (note :)He describes by what way the Assyrians would come against Jerusalem , to confirm the faithful , when it would come to pass , that as their plague was come , so should they be delivered .(:note ) Aiath , he is passed to Migron ; at Michmash he hath attended to his carriages : * They haue gone ouer the foorde : they lodged in the lodging at Geba : Ramah is afraide : Gibeah of Saul is fled away . * Lift vp thy voyce , O daughter Gallim , cause Laish to heare , O poore Anathoth . * Madmenah is remoued : the inhabitants of Gebim haue gathered themselues together . * Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob : he shall lift vp his hand towarde the mount of the daughter Zion , the hill of Ierusalem . * Behold , the Lord , the LORD of hosts , shall lop the (note :)Fear and destruction will come on Judah for the princes and the people will all be led away captive .(:note ) bough with terror : and the high ones of stature [shall be ] hewn down , and the haughty shall be humbled . * And he shall cut away the thicke places of the forest with yron , and Lebanon shall haue a mightie fall .

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