Isaiah 10:22
For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
World English Bible
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In Context
21A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
23For the Lord, GOD of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.
Cross References
1 Kings 4:20Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 8:8It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
Isaiah 37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Jeremiah 3:14“Return, backsliding children,” says the LORD, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you 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 →