Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest - The army of the Assyrians, described here as a thick, dense forest; compare Isaiah 10:18-19.
With iron - As a forest is cut down with an axe, so the prophet uses this phrase here, to keep up and carry out the figure. The army was destroyed with the pestilence II Kings 19:35; but it fell as certainly as a forest falls before the axe.
And Lebanon - Lebanon is here evidently descriptive of the army of the Assyrian, retaining the idea of a beautiful and magnificent forest. Thus, in Ezekiel 31:3, it is said, ' the king of the Assyrians was a cedar of Lebanon with fair branches.' Lebanon is usually applied to the Jews as descriptive of them (Jeremiah 22:6, Jeremiah 22:23; Zechariah 10:10; 11: l), but it is evidently applied here to the Assyrian army; and the sense is, that that army should be soon and certainly destroyed, and that, therefore, the inhabitants of Jerusalem had no cause of alarm; see the notes at Isa. 37.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 10:34:
Isaiah 14:8
Isaiah 14:25
Isaiah 29:1
Isaiah 29:5
Isaiah 32:19
Isaiah 33:9
Isaiah 35:2
Isaiah 37:24
Isaiah 40:16
Micah 4:11
Habakkuk 2:17
Zechariah 11:1
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