Isaiah 10:16

So the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will send a disease on the king of Assyria's strong warriors that will make them waste away; a flaming fire will be set under everything he's so proud of.

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In The King James Version

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

In Context

15Does an ax say it's more important than the person swinging it? Does a saw boast that it's greater than the person sawing with it? It would be as if a rod waved the person holding it, or a walking stick lifted up a person—who certainly wasn't wood!

17Israel's light will become a fire, and his Holy One will become a flame. It will burn up his thorns and brambles in just one day.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:21The Lord sent an angel who wiped out every warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he returned home in disgrace. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him with their swords.

Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pasture; fattened livestock and goats will feed among the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 9:4For you will smash the yoke that burdens them down, the bar across their shoulders, and the oppressors' rod used to beat them just as you did when you defeated the Midianite army.

Isaiah 10:18It will totally destroy its splendid forests and orchards. Assyria will waste away, staggering off like someone sick.

Isaiah 17:4At that time the glory of Jacob will fade away; he will lose his strength.

Isaiah 29:5But then all your enemies will become like fine dust; all your cruel oppressors like chaff that's blown away. Then suddenly, in no time at all,

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:6-20

The Pride of the King of Assyria; Sennacherib's Pride Rebuked; Destruction of the King of Assyria. ( b. c. 740.) 5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations… Read the whole commentary →

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