Isaiah declares woe on those in Israel and Judah who use the law to take advantage of the poor. These people will not escape the Lord's judgment. He next ...

When God brings his people into trouble, it is to bring sin to their remembrance, and humble them, and to awaken them to a sense of their duty; this must be the ...

7 But that is not what the king of Assyria plans. It is not what he has in mind. His purpose is to destroy many nations. His purpose is to put an end to them.

God is light; in him are perfect brightness, purity, and happiness. He is light, for he is the Holy One; his holiness is his glory. He is Israel's light, to ...

His purposes, intentions, and thoughts, were not as the Lord's; he did not imagine that he was only the rod of his anger, and the staff of his indignation.

The prophet, in this chapter, is dealing, II. With a threatening invader of his people from abroad, Sennacherib king of Assyria, concerning whom observe.

In this verse, the prophet Isaiah addresses the Assyrian king as a tool of divine judgment. Assyria is depicted as an iron rod wielded by God, ...

New International Version But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.

From verse 7 onward Good News Translation refers to “the Assyrian emperor,” removing the poetic device of personification. Both approaches are valid.

David Guzik commentary on Isaiah 10 describes the judgment of God over Assyria inspire of the attack on Israel, who will have a remnant preserved.