Isaiah 10:7

And he — he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For — to destroy [is] in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

In Context

6Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

8For he saith, 'Are not my princes altogether kings?

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Cross References

Genesis 50:20As for you, ye devised against me evil — God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

Isaiah 36:19Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?

Isaiah 37:19so as to put their gods into fire — for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone — and they destroy them.

Micah 4:11And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: 'Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'

Acts 2:23this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified — ye did slay;

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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