Isaiah 10:23

For the Lord, the God of hosts, will accomplish an abbreviation and a consummation, in the midst of all the earth.

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In The King James Version

For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

In Context

22For though your people, O Israel, will be like the sand of the sea, yet only a remnant of them will be converted. The consummation, having been shortened, will be inundated with justice.

24For this reason, the Lord, the God of hosts, says this: “My people, who inhabit Zion: do not be afraid of Assur. He will strike you with his rod, and he will lift up his staff over you, on the way of Egypt.

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Cross References

Psalms 46:9God will reign over the peoples. God sits upon his holy throne.

Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord will lay waste to the earth, and he will strip it, and he will afflict its surface, and he will scatter its inhabitants.

Daniel 11:36And the king will act according to his will, and he will be lifted up and will be extolled against every god. And he will speak great things against the God of gods, and he will control, until the passion is completed. Once accomplished, the limit is reached with certainty.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:21-24

Encouragement to Israel. ( b. c. 740.) 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord , the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the Lord… Read the whole commentary →

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