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Isaiah 10:5-6

Context
The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria

10:5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, 1 

a cudgel with which I angrily punish. 2 

10:6 I sent him 3  against a godless 4  nation,

I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, 5 

to take plunder and to carry away loot,

to trample them down 6  like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 10:22

Context
10:22 For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as 7  the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. 8  Destruction has been decreed; 9  just punishment 10  is about to engulf you. 11 

1 tn Heb “Woe [to] Assyria, the club of my anger.” On הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) see the note on the first phrase of 1:4.

2 tn Heb “a cudgel is he, in their hand is my anger.” It seems likely that the final mem (ם) on בְיָדָם (bÿyadam) is not a pronominal suffix (“in their hand”), but an enclitic mem. If so, one can translate literally, “a cudgel is he in the hand of my anger.”

3 sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).

4 tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”

5 tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”

6 tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”

7 tn Heb “are like.”

8 sn The twofold appearance of the statement “a remnant will come back” (שְׁאָר יָשׁוּב, shear yashuv) in vv. 21-22 echoes and probably plays off the name of Isaiah’s son Shear-jashub (see 7:3). In its original context the name was meant to encourage Ahaz (see the note at 7:3), but here it has taken on new dimensions. In light of Ahaz’s failure and the judgment it brings down on the land, the name Shear-jashub now foreshadows the destiny of the nation. According to vv. 21-22, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that a remnant of God’s people will return; the bad news is that only a remnant will be preserved and come back. Like the name Immanuel, this name foreshadows both judgment (see the notes at 7:25 and 8:8) and ultimate restoration (see the note at 8:10).

9 tn Or “predetermined”; cf. ASV, NASB “is determined”; TEV “is in store.”

10 tn צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah) often means “righteousness,” but here it refers to God’s just judgment.

11 tn Or “is about to overflow.”



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