geneva Isaiah:10:5-12
geneva@Isaiah:10:5 @ 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.
geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ 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.
geneva@Isaiah:10:7 @ 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.
geneva@Isaiah:10:8 @ For he sayeth, Are not my princes altogether Kings?
geneva@Isaiah:10:9 @ [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?
geneva@Isaiah:10:10 @ Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria:
geneva@Isaiah:10:11 @ Shall not I, as I haue done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so doe to Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof?
geneva@Isaiah:10:12 @ 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.
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