Isaiah 10:5
“Woe [to] Asshur, a rod of My anger, || And My indignation [is] a staff in their hand.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 24:24But ships [come] from the side of Chittim, || And they have humbled Asshur, || And they have humbled Eber, || But it is also perishing forever.”
Psalms 17:14From men, Your hand, O YHWH, || From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, || And [with] Your hidden things You fill their belly, || They are satisfied [with] sons, || And have left their abundance to their sucklings.
Isaiah 7:20In that day the Lord shaves, || By a razor that is hired beyond the river, || By the king of Asshur, || The head, and the hair of the feet, || Indeed, it also consumes the beard.
Isaiah 10:15Does the axe glorify itself || Against him who is hewing with it? Does the saw magnify itself || Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
Isaiah 14:5The golden one has ceased. YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, || The scepter of rulers.
Isaiah 29:2And I have sent distress to Ariel, || And it has been lamentation and mourning, || And it has been to me as Ariel.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:2-5
The Condemnation of Oppressors. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow down under… Read the whole commentary →