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Isaiah 10

1 Of wicked law makers 5 God will punish his people by the Assyrians and after destroy them 21 The remnant of Israél shalbe saved.
1.aWo unto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grievous things,
2.To keep back the poor from judgement, and to take away the judgement of the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may spoil the fatherless.
3.What will ye do now in the daie of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from bfar to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your cgold?
4.dWithout me every one shall fail among them that are bound, and they shall fall down among the slain, yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5.¶ O eAsshúr, the rod of my wrath and the staff in their hands is mine indignation
6.I will send fhim to a dissembling nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoil & to take the prey, and to tread them under feet like the mire in the street.
7.But he thinketh not so, neither doeth his heart esteem it so: but he imagineth to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8.For he saith, Are not my princes all together Kings?
9.Is not Calnó as gCarchemísh? Is not Hamáth like Arpád? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10.Like as mine hand hath found the kingdoms of the idoles, seeing their idoles were above Jerusalém, and above Samaria:
11.Shall not I, as I have done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so do to Jerusalém and to the idoles thereof?
12.¶ But when the Lord hath accomplished hall his work upon mount Zión and Jerusalém, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart iof the King of Asshúr, and his glorious and proud looks,
13.Because he said, By the power of mine own hand have I done it, & by my wisdom, because I am wise: therefore I have removed the borders of the people, and have spoiled their treasures, and have pulled down the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14.And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth eggs that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none to move the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.
15.Shall the kaxe boast it self against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw exalt it self against him that moveth it? as if the rod should lift up it self against him that taketh it up, or the staff should exalt it self, as it were no wood.
16.Therefore shall the Lord God of hostes send among his fat men, leaness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
17.And the light of Israél shalbe as a lfire, and the Holy one thereof as a flame, and it shall burn, and devour mhis thorns and his briers in one daie:
18.And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful fields both soul nand flesh: and he shalbe as the ofainting of a standard bearer.
19.And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe few, that a child may tell them.
20.¶ And at that daie shall the remnant of Israél, and such as are escaped of the house of Jaakób, stay no more upon him that smote them, but shall pstay upon the Lord, the holy one of Israél in truth.
21.The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jaakób unto the mighty God.
22.For though thy people, ô Israél, be as the sand of the sea, yet shall the remnant of them return. The consumption qdecreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23.For the Lord God of hostes shall make the consumption, even rdetermined, in the middes of all the land.
24.Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hostes, O my people, that dwellest in Zión, be not afraid of Asshúr: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of sEgypt
25.But yet a very little time, and the wrath shalbe consumed, and mine anger in their destruction.
26.And the Lord of hostes shall raise up a scourge for him, according to the plague of tMidian in the rock Oréb: and as his staff was upon the uSea, so he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27.And at that day shall his burden be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck: and the yoke shalbe destroyed because of xthe anointing.
28.He is come yto Aráth: he is passed into Migrón: at Michmásh shall he lay up his armour.
29.They have gone over the ford: they lodged in the lodging at Gebá: Ramáh is afraid: Gibeáh of Saúl is fled away.
30.Lift up thy voice, ô daughter of Gallím, cause Laísh to hear, ô poor Anathóth.
31.Madmenáh is removed: the inhabitants of Gebím have gathered them selves together.
32.Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob: he shall lift up his hand toward the mount of the daughter Zión, the hill of Jerusalém.
33.Behold, the Lord God of hostes shall cut off the zbough with fear, and they of highstature shalbe cut off, and the high shalbe humbled.
34.And he shall cut away the thick places of the forest with iron, and Lebanón shall have a mighty fall.

Notes

1-a.
Which write and pronounce a wicked sentence to oppress the poor meaning that the wicked magistrates that are the chief cause of mischief shalbe first punished.
3-b.
That is, from Assyria.
3-c.
Your riches and authority that they may be safe and that you may receive them again.
4-d.
Because they have forsaken me, some shall go into captivity, and the rest shall be slain.
5-e.
God called for the Assyrians to be the executioners fo his vengeance.
6-f.
I arise the Assyrians against the Jews, which are but hypocrites and in the sixth and seventh verses is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act for God’s intention to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves, thus in respect of God’s justice, it is God’s work, but in respect of their own malice, it is the work of the devil.
9-g.
Seeing that I have overcome, aswell one city as another, so that none could resist, shall Jerusalem be able to escape my hands?
12-h.
When he has sufficiently chastised his people (for he begins at his own house) then will he burn the rods.
12-i.
Meaning, of Saneherib.
15-k.
Here we see that no creature is able to do any thing, but as God appoints him, and that they are all but his instruments to do his work, though the intentions be diverse, as ver 6.
17-l.
Meaning, that God is a light to comfort his people, and a fire to burn his enemies.
17-m.
That is, the Assyrians.
18-n.
To wit, body and soul utterly.
18-o.
When the battle is lost and the standard taken.
20-p.
This is the end of God’s plagues towards his, to bring them to him and to forsake all trust in others.
22-q.
This small number, which seemed to be consumed, and yet according to God’s decree is saved, shall be sufficient to fill all the world with righteousness.
23-r.
God will destroy this land as he has determined, and after save a small portion.
24-s.
As the Egyptians did punish you.
26-t.
Read Chap. 9.4.
27-u.
When the Israelites passed through by the lifting up of Moses’ rod, and the enemies were drowned, Ex. 14.27.
27-x.
Because of the promise made to that kingdom, whereby Christ’s kingdom was prefigured.
28-y.
He descries by what way the Assyrians should come against Jerusalem to confirm the faithful, when it should come to pass, that as their plague was come so should they be delivered.
33-z.
Fear and destruction shall come upon Judah for the princes and the people shall all be led away captives.