Isaiah 10:6

I sent him ¹  against a godless ²  nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, ³  to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down ⁴  like dirt in the streets.

2Sa 22:43; Isa 9:17; Isa 10:13,14; Isa 19:17; Isa 22:5; Isa 29:13; Isa 30:9-11; Isa 33:14; Isa 37:26,27; Isa 41:25; Isa 45:1-5; Isa 63:3,6; Jer 3:10; Jer 4:14; Jer 25:9; Jer 34:22; Jer 47:6,7; Mic 7:10; Zec 10:5; Mt 15:7

¹ sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).

² tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”

³ tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”

⁴ tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”