Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 10:6

"I will send him against a profane 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." — Isaiah 10:6 (ASV)

I will send him against an hypocritical nation. —Better, impious. The verb can be rendered in various ways: “I will send,” “I did send,” and “I usually send.” The last seems to provide the best meaning—not merely a fact in history, nor an isolated prediction, but a law of the Divine government.

To take the spoil. —The series of words, though general in meaning, probably contains a special reference to the recent destruction of Samaria: walls pulled down, houses and palaces turned into heaps of rubbish, soldiers trampling on flower and fruit gardens—this was what the Assyrian army left behind. Judah had probably suffered in the same way in the hands of Sargon.