Albert Barnes Commentary Isaiah 10:25

Albert Barnes Commentary

Isaiah 10:25

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Isaiah 10:25

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"For yet a very little while, and the indignation [against thee] shall be accomplished, and mine anger [shall be directed] to his destruction." — Isaiah 10:25 (ASV)

For yet a very little while - This is designed to console them with the hope of deliverance. The threatened invasion was brief and was soon ended by the pestilence that swept off the greater part of the army of the Assyrian.

The indignation shall cease - The anger of God against his offending people shall come to an end; his purposes of chastisement shall be completed; and the land shall be delivered.

In their destruction - על־תבליתם ‛al-tabelı̂ytām from בלה bâlâh — to wear out; to consume; to be annihilated. It means here, that his anger would terminate in the entire annihilation of their power to injure them. Such was the complete overthrow of Sennacherib by the pestilence (2 Kings 19:35). The word used here occurs in this form in no other place in the Hebrew Bible, though the verb and other forms of the noun are used. For “the verb,” see Deuteronomy 7:4; Deuteronomy 29:5; Joshua 9:13; Nehemiah 9:21, ... For “nouns,” see Ezekiel 23:43; Isaiah 38:17; Jeremiah 38:11–12; Isaiah 17:14, and others.