Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Isaiah 10

Isa 10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

the day of visitation

Hos 9:7; Luk 19:44.

Isa 10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

his anger is not turned away

Isa 5:25; 9:12, 17, 21.

Isa 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

Assyrian

Hebrew Asshur.

Isa 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical 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.

give him a charge

Jer 34:22.

Isa 10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

he meaneth not so

Gen 50:20; Mic 4:12.

Isa 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Calno

Amo 6:2.

Isa 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

when the Lord hath performed his whole work

A permanent method in the divine government of the earth. Israel is always the centre of the divine counsels earthward (Deu 32:8). The Gentile nations are permitted to afflict Israel in chastisement for her national sins, but invariably and inevitably retribution falls upon them. (See Gen 15:13, 14; Deu 30:5-7; Isa 14:1, 2; Joe 3:1-8; Mic 5:7-9; Mat 25:31-40.)

upon mount Zion

2Ki 19:31.

I will punish

Jer 50:18.

Isa 10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

By the strength of my hand

Isa 37:24; Eze 28:4; Dan 4:30.

Isa 10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

the axe boast itself

Jer 51:20.

Isa 10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

that day

"That day": often the equivalent of "the day of the Lord" (Isa 2:10-22; Rev 19:11-21). The prophecy here passes from the general to the particular, from historic and fulfilled judgments upon Assyria to the final destruction of all Gentile world-power at the return of the Lord in glory. (See "Armageddon," Rev 16:14; 19:21; "Times of the Gentiles," Luk 21:24; Rev 16:19; "The great tribulation," Psa 2:5; Rev 7:14, and Scofield Isaiah 13:19, note.

remnant

Remnant. Isa 10:20-22; Isa 11:11. (Isa 1:9; Rom 11:5).

Isa 10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

as the sand of the sea

Isa 10:22, 23; Rom 9:27, 28.

Isa 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

in that day

Armageddon (battle of). Isa 10:27-34; Isa 24:21-23. (Rev 16:14; 19:21.)