Isaiah 10:22
For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the seashore, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, as overflowing righteousness demands. 1
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21A remnant of Jacob will return to the mighty God. 1
23For the Lord Yahweh of hosts, is about to carry out the destruction determined throughout the land.
Cross References
1 Kings 4:20Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea. They were eating and drinking and were happy.
Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, 1 “Until cities crash into ruins and are without inhabitants, 1 and the houses are without people, and the land falls into a desolate waste, 1
Isaiah 8:8The River will sweep onward into Judah, flooding and passing on, until it reaches to your neck. 1 Its outstretched wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.” 1
Isaiah 28:15This will happen because you said, “We have made a covenant with death, 1 and with Sheol we have reached an agreement. So when the overwhelming whip passes through, it will not reach us. 1 For we have made a lie our refuge, and taken shelter in falsehood.” 1
Isaiah 37:31The remnant of the house of Judah that survives will again take root and bear fruit. 1
Jeremiah 3:14Return, faithless people!—this is Yawheh's declaration—I am your husband! 1 I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion!
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 →