Isaiah 10:17

The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; 1 it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day. 1

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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 the Lord Yahweh of hosts will send emaciation among his elite warriors; 1 and under his glory there will be kindled a burning like fire. 1

18Yahweh will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful land, both soul and body; 1 it will be like when a sick man's life wastes away. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 11:1Now the people complained about their troubles as Yahweh listened. Yahweh heard the people and became angry. Fire from Yahweh burned among them and consumed some of the camp on its edges.

Deuteronomy 4:24For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Psalms 21:9At the time of your anger, you will burn them up as in a fiery furnace. 1 Yahweh will consume them in his wrath, 1 and the fire will devour them. 1

Psalms 50:3Our God comes and does not stay silent; 1 a fire devours before him, 1 and it is very stormy around him. 1

Psalms 84:11For Yahweh God is our sun and shield; 1 Yahweh will give grace and glory; 1 he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity. 1

Isaiah 9:18Wickedness burns like a fire; it devours the briers and thorns; 1 it even burns the thickets of the forest, which rise in a column of smoke. 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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