Isaiah 10:17

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

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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 the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

18He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:1The people were complaining in the ears of the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled; and the Lord's fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

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

Psalms 21:9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger.The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath.The fire shall devour them.

Psalms 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent.A fire devours before him.It is very stormy around him.

Psalms 84:11For the Lord God is a sun and a shield.The Lord will give grace and glory.He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire.It devours the briers and thorns;yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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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