Isaiah 10:17

And the Ohr Yisroel shall become an eish, 1 and His Kadosh a flame; 1 and shall burn and consume its thistles 1 and its thorns in Yom Echad; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

In Context

16Therefore shall HaAdon Hashem Tzva'os 1 send among his fat ones leanness; 1 and instead of his kavod there will be kindled a burning 1 like the blazing of eish. 1

18And shall consume the kavod of his forest and his fertile land, 1 even to nefesh and basar; 1 and shall be as a sick man wasting away. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 11:1And when the people complained, it displeased Hashem; Hashem heard it; His anger was kindled; and the Eish Hashem burned among them, and consumed them that were at the edge of the machaneh.

Deuteronomy 4:24For Hashem Eloheicha is a consuming eish, even an El Kannah.

Psalms 21:9Thine yad shall find out all thine enemies; 1 thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 1

Psalms 50:3Eloheinu shall come, and shall not keep silent; 1 an eish shall devour before Him, 1 and it shall be tempestuous me'od round about Him. 1

Psalms 84:11For a yom in Thy khatzrot is better 1 than a thousand. 1 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the Beis Elohai, 1 than to dwell in the ohalim resha (tents of wickedness). 1

Isaiah 9:18Through the Evrat Hashem Tzva'os (Wrath of Hashem of Hosts) 1 is the land darkened, 1 and HaAm shall be ma'acholet eish (food for fire); 1 no ish shall spare his brother. 1

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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