Jesaja 10:16

Schlachter Bibel

Darum wird der Herrscher, der Herr der Heerscharen, unter die Fetten Assurs die Schwindsucht senden und unter seinen Edlen einen Brand anzünden wie Feuersglut.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Darum wird der HERR HERR Zebaoth unter die Fetten Assurs die Darre senden, und seine Herrlichkeit wird er anzünden, daß sie brennen wird wie ein Feuer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord of hosts: Isaiah 5:17, Isaiah 14:24-27, Isaiah 29:5-8, Isaiah 37:6, Isaiah 37:7, Isaiah 37:29, Isaiah 37:36, 2 Chronicles 32:21, Psalms 106:15, Acts 12:23

and under: Isaiah 9:5, Isaiah 30:30-33, Isaiah 33:10-14

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:28 - a fire 1 Kings 20:11 - Let not him 2 Kings 19:7 - a blast 2 Kings 19:35 - and smote 2 Chronicles 13:17 - five hundred Job 16:8 - my leanness Job 34:20 - without Psalms 22:29 - that be Psalms 37:36 - General Isaiah 9:18 - it shall Isaiah 10:12 - I will Isaiah 10:26 - stir up Isaiah 10:33 - lop Isaiah 14:25 - I will Isaiah 17:4 - the fatness Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 24:16 - But Isaiah 30:27 - burning Isaiah 31:4 - so shall Isaiah 31:8 - shall the Isaiah 33:18 - where is he Jeremiah 48:14 - We Ezekiel 34:16 - but I Nahum 1:6 - his fury Zephaniah 2:13 - he will Zechariah 7:4 - Lord of hosts Zechariah 12:6 - like an hearth Malachi 1:4 - They shall build

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts,.... Because of the pride, and arrogance, and vain boasting of the Assyrian monarch, which was resented by the Lord, he is threatened with what follows; and in order to humble him, and to show that God is above him, these titles are used; "the Lord", the Lord of the whole earth, and the King of kings, and Lord of lords; "the Lord of hosts", of armies above and below, of more and greater armies than what the king of Assyria was lord of; and therefore he might be assured that what is hereafter threatened would be fulfilled, namely,

send among his fat ones leanness; the Targum is, among his princes, who abounded in riches and honour; or his army, and the chiefs in it, the mighty and strong; and by "leanness" is meant destruction and death, which came upon his army, and the great men of it, immediately from the hand of God; see Psalms 106:15 compared with Numbers 11:33:

and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire; that is, under his army, which was great and glorious, very numerous, and well accoutred with clothes and arms, and made a very splendid and glittering show, and of which the Assyrian monarch gloried; this army the Jews say was destroyed by fire, and that the bodies of the men were burnt, and their clothes untouched; but Jarchi interprets this glory of their garments, which give a man glory, and says these were burnt; the Targum calls them their vessels of glory; perhaps meaning their glittering arms, which were burnt along with them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall the Lord - Hebrew, אדון 'ādôn.

The Lord of hosts - In the present Hebrew text, the original word is also אדני 'ădonāy, but fifty-two manuscripts and six editions read Jehovah. On the meaning of the phrase, “the Lord of hosts,” see the note at Isaiah 1:9. This verse contains a threatening of the punishment that would come upon the Assyrian for his insolence and pride, and the remainder of the chapter is mainly occupied with the details of that punishment. The punishment here threatened is, that while he appeared to be a victor, and was boasting of success and of his plunder, God would send leanness - as a body becomes wasted with disease.

His fat ones - That is, those who had fattened on the spoils of victory; his vigorous, prosperous, and flourishing army. The prophet here evidently intends to describe his numerous army glutted with the trophies of victor, and revelling on the spoils.

Leanness - They shall be emaciated and reduced; their vigor and strength shall be diminished. In Psalms 106:15, the word “leanness,” רזון râzôn, is used to denote destruction, disease. In Micah 6:10, it denotes diminution, scantiness - ‘the scant ephah.’ Here it denotes, evidently, that the army which was so large and vigorous, should waste away as with a pestilential disease; compare Isaiah 10:19. The “fact” was, that of that vast host few escaped. The angel of the Lord killed 185,000 men in a single night; 2 Kings 18:35; see the notes at Isa. 38:36.

And under his glory - That is, beneath the boasted honor, might, and magnificence of the proud monarch.

He shall kindle - That is, God shall suddenly and entirely destroy his magnificence and pride, as when a fire is kindled beneath a magnificent temple. A similar passage occurs in Zechariah 12:6 :

In that day I shall make the governors of Judah

Like a hearth of fire among the wood,

And like a torch of fire in a sheaf;

And they shall devour all the people round about.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 10:16. The Lord - "JEHOVAH."] For אדני Adonai, fifty-two MSS., eleven editions, and two of my own, ancient, read יהוה, Yehovah, as in other cases.

And under his glory — That is, all that he could boast of as great and strong in his army, (Sal. ben Melec in loc.,) expressed afterwards, Isaiah 10:18, by the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field.