Isaiah 10:23

He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short work in all the world.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

22And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.

24Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell in Zion, of the Assyrians, because he shall smite thee with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon thee, that thou mayest see the way of Egypt.

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Cross References

Psalms 46:9God reigns over the nations: 1 God sits upon the throne of his holiness. 1

Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.

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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