Isaiah 10:12
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
11For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:27Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, 1 Lest their enemies should combine against them; 1 Lest they should say, Our own high arm, 1 And not the Lord, has done all these things. 1
Job 40:11And send forth messengers with wrath; 1 And lay low every haughty one. 1
Psalms 21:10For thou art he that drew me out of the womb; 1 My hope from my mother’s breasts. 1
Proverbs 21:4A high-minded man is stouthearted in his pride; 1 And the lamp of the wicked is sin. 1
Isaiah 2:11For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 5:15And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.
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 →