Isaiah 10

Isaiah 10:1

THat decrees] Wicked ruler, that make unjust and cruell decrees, Psalms 58:2. and Psalms 94:20.

that write] Or, to the writers, that write grievousnesse, Jeremiah 8:8. Daniel 6:8-9.

Isaiah 10:2

turn aside, &c.] Heb. make to decline the judgement, or, cause, of the needy, Exodus 23:2. Proverbs 17:25. I am. 3. 35.

Isaiah 10:3

what will ye do] How think ye to escape the just judgement of God? Matthew 23:33. Romans 2:3. or what course will ye take, when he cometh to deal with you? Job 31. 14, 23.

from farre] From Assyria. vers. 5.

your glory] Your riches and greatnesse; wherein ye now glory, Chap. 28. 15. Amos 6:13. but shall then stand you in no stead, Proverbs 11:4. Ezekiel 7:19. Jeremiah 22:23.

Isaiah 10:4

Without, &c.] Or, But for me they should. Or, But that one bow.

me they shall bowe] Were it not for me, did not I support them, they would come to extream miserie. Or, There is no way for them but to crouch, and seek in most submisse manner to the enemie, 2 Kings 18:14.

under] Or, below.

and they shall fall under] Or, and others fall down beneath.

For all this his anger] Chap. 5. 25, & 9. 12.

Isaiah 10:5

O Assyrian] Or, Wo to the Assyrian. as Chap. 18. 1.

Assyrian] Heb. Ashur. Chap. 7. 17.

rod of mine anger] By whom I chastise my people, Chap. 9. 4. & 30. 31.

and] Or, through. as Hosea 5:2.

the staffe in their hand] Chap. 13. 5.

Isaiah 10:6

against] Against the Jews; with whom for their wickednesse I am displeased, Chap. 47. 6. & 57. 17.

an hypocriticall] Or, a prophane. Chap. 9. 17. Jeremiah 23:15.

give him a charge] By a secret instinct; and unseen, but effectuall, disposall, Jeremiah 34:22. & Jeremiah 49:14. & Jeremiah 50:21.

to tread them down] Heb. to lay them a treading. Chap. 28. 18. Psalms 18:42.

Isaiah 10:7

he meaneth not] He intendeth not (albeit he pretend it, Chap. 36. 7, 10.) the fulfilling of my will; but the satisfying of his own ambition, as Chap. 45. 4, 5.

Isaiah 10:8

For he saith] 2 Kings 18:24. & 19. 10, &c. Chap. 36. 9.

Isaiah 10:9

Is not] Have not Isubdued as well the one as the other

Calno] Amos 6:2. Genesis 10:10.

Carchemish] 2 Chron. 39. 20.

Hamath] Chap. 36. 19.

Isaiah 10:10

As my hand hath found] 2 Kings 18:33.-35. & 19. 10, 13. Chap. 36. 18,-20. & 37. 10,-13.

Isaiah 10:11

to Jerusalem and her idols] Making no other, or better account of the true God, then of those base idols.

Isaiah 10:12

when the Lord hath] When God hath sufficiently chastised his own people; (for with them he beginneth, Jeremiah 25:18. 1 Pet. 4. 17.) he will then burn the rod, wherewith he chastised them, Chap. 30. 31, 33. Lamentations 2:17.

upon mount Zion] 2 Kings 19:31.

punish] Heb. visit upon. Jeremiah 50:18.

the fruit] His blasphemous boasting, Chap. 37. 23, 29.

of the stout heart] Heb. of the greatnesse of the heart. Chap. 9. 9.

of the king of Assyria] Of Senacherib, Chap. 37. 36,-38.

Isaiah 10:13

By the strength] Deuteronomy 8:17. Amos 6:13.

I have done it] He ascribeth that to himselfe, that God had done by him, vers. 5. 6. Chap. 37. 26.

the inhabitants] Or, those that sat upon the throne. See Chap. 9. 7. & 13. 20.

like a valiant man] Or, like many people. Chap. 16. 14.

Isaiah 10:14

as a nest] As birds in a nest; or as a nest, having birds or egges in it, forsaken by the damme, Chap. 16. 2.

all the earth] Or, the riches of all. as Genesis 1:16. Job 31:3. & Job 36:32.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the ax] Shall those, that are but Gods instrments, advance themselves against God? such as all, even the wicked, are. vers. 5. Jeremiah 51:20.

as if the rod should shake] Or, as if the rod would shake them, that lift it up.

should lift up] Or, because it is lift up, were not wood.

it self,] Or, that which is not wood.

no wood] Or, thou Senacherib not a mortall man still; because so advanced, and suffered to prevail against others, Psalms 82:7. & Psalms 146:4. Chap. 2. 22. Ezekiel 28:9.

Isaiah 10:16

send among his fat ones leannesse] Wast his great ones; in whom he so much gloried, Chap. 9. 8. & 36. 9. as a body is wasted with leannesse, Chap. 17. 4. Zeph. 2. 11. and consume them, as with fire, Chap. 9. 18. & 24. 6. & 26. 11. Psalms 21:9. & Psalms 37:20.

Isaiah 10:17

the light of Israel shall be for a fire] The same God will be, both a light to comfort his people, and a fire to consume his enemies, Exod. 14. 20, 24. Psal. 97. 3, 4. Zechariah 2:5.

his thorns and his briers] His souldiers and forces, which had been as thorns and briers to Gods people, Joshua 23:13. 2 Samuel 23:6. Chap. 27. 4.

in one day] In a night, Chap. 37. 36. being part of the naturall day, Genesis 1:5.

Isaiah 10:18

the glory of his forest] His strong warriers, and his rich and slately Princes, Jeremiah 46:23.

both soul and body] Heb. from the soul, and even to the flesh. as Jeremiah 9:10. and Jeremiah 50:3.

soul and body] Utterly, without hope of recovery.

a standard bearer] When he seeth his colours forsaken: or, upon whose fainting and failing the whole regiment is quailed.

fainteth] Heb. melteth. Chap. 31. 8.

Isaiah 10:19

few] Heb. number. Deuteronomy 4:27. Jeremiah 44:28.

Isaiah 10:20

such as are escaped] Heb. the escaping. Chap. 4. 2.

shall no more again] Heb. shall not adde to stay. Chap. 7. 10. Jonah 2:4.

stay upon him] For relief and support; as a man stayeth himself, by leaning on a staff, Chap. 36. 6. & 50. 10.

that smote them] Upon the Assyrians; (by whom God had smitten them, vers. 5. 24.) as they formerly had done, 2 Kings 16:7. Hosea 5:13.

upon the Lord] This being the end of Gods smiting them, not to drive them from him, but to reclaim and draw them home to him, Chap. 9. 11, 12. and to make them rest and relie on himself alone, Chap. 17. 7, 8. & 18. 7.

in truth] Or, sincerely. Psalms 145:18.

Isaiah 10:21

The remnant shall return] Chap. 7. 3.

Isaiah 10:22

For though thy people] Romans 9:27.

as the sand of the sea] An hyperbolicall phrase; used to signifie great numberlesse multitudes, Genesis 22:17. Judges 7:12. Chap. 48. 19. Hebrews 11:12.

of] Heb. in. or, amongst.

the consumption decreed] Chap. 28. 22.

overflow] Shall through the just judgement of God, Plal. 119. 161. overrun the whole land, vers. 23. Chap. 8. 8.

with] Or, in.

Isaiah 10:23

determined in the midst of all the land] Or, a precise one (Daniel 9:27.) in the whole land. Chap. 5. 8.

Isaiah 10:24

in Zion] In Jerusalem, Chap. 1. 8, 27.

be not afraid of the Assyrian] Chap. 37. 6.

he shall smite thee with a rod] Vers. 5. 6.

and shall lift up his staff against thee] Or, but he shall lift up his staff for thee.

Egypt] He shall punish thee, as the Egyptians did, Exodus 1:13. or, God shall destroy him, as he did the Egyptians. Exodus 14:26-27. vers. 26.

Isaiah 10:25

shall cease] Towards thee my people, Chap. 27. 4. & 54. 9. Ezekiel 16:42.

in their destruction] It shall be turned against those thine enemies; and employed in destroying them, vers. 12. in, Heb. upon.

Isaiah 10:26

slaughter] Heb. stroke. Chap. 27. 7.

Midian at the rock] Judges 7:25. Chap. 9. 4.

his rod was upon the sea] Moses his rod, lift up over the red sea, Exodus 14:16; Exodus 14:21; Exodus 14:26. vers. 24.

after the manner of Egypt] When the Israelites were saved, and the Egyptians drowned, Exodus 14:28-29.

Isaiah 10:27

his burden] Chap. 9. 4. & 14. 25.

shall be taken away] Heb. shall remove. Psalms 81:6.

because of the anointing] In favour of his anointed; Hezekiah, Chap. 37. 21. a type of Christ, Acts 4:27. for whom chiefly, and by whose powerfull aid this should be effected, Chap. 9. 4. 6.

Isaiah 10:28

is come to] He sheweth, which way the Assyrian forces should pierce into Judah: to wit, through the land of Benjamin; in which most of these were situate; as by the places pointed to, appeareth.

Aiath] Or, the territorie of Ai. Nehem. 7. 32.

Migron] 1 Samuel 14:2.

Michmash] 1 Samuel 13:2.

laid up] Or, surveyed. Chap. 22. 10. Heb. made to visite. Jeremiah 36:20. Numbers 1:49-50.

Isaiah 10:29

the passage] 1 Sam. 14, 1.

Geba] Nehem. 11. 31.

Ramah is afraid] Joshua 18:25.

Gibeah of Saul] 2 Samuel 23:29.

Isaiah 10:30

Lift up thy voyce] Heb. Cry shrill with thy voyce. Chap. 12. 6.

Gallim] 1 Samuel 25:44.

Laish] Judges 18:29.

Anathoth] Jeremiah 1:1.

Isaiah 10:31

Madmenah is removed] Joshua 15:31.

Gebim] Joshua 15:31.

gather themselves to flee] Jeremiah 6:1.

Isaiah 10:32

remain] Or, stay. Heb. stand. Genesis 45:1. Chap. 66. 22.

Nob] Nehem. 11. 32.

shake his hand against] Threaten them he shall; and that shall be all, that he shall do to Jerusalem, Chap. 37. 33, 34. See Chap. 37. 22.

the mount of] Chap. 2. 2. Jeremiah 17:3.

Isaiah 10:33

lop the bough] Cut off the Assyrian forces; compared here to high boughs and tall trees, Chap. 2. 13. vers. 18.

terrour] Or, violence. Chap. 8. 14. & 29. 20.

the high ones] Amos 2:9.

the haughty shall be humbled] Chap. 2. 11.

Isaiah 10:34

the thickets] Chap. 9. 18.

forests with iron] That vast army, like the forest of Lebanon, for might and multitude, vers. 18. See Jeremiah 22:23.

by a mighty one] Or, mightily.

a mighty one] By the ministery of an Angel, Chap. 37. 36.