Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Shall the instrument boast against Him who uses it? Through free in a sense, and carrying out his own plans, the Assyrian was unconsciously carrying out God's purposes.
shaketh it—moves it back and forward.
staff . . . lift . . . itself . . . no wood—rather, "as if the staff (man, the instrument of God's judgments on his fellow man) should set aside (Him who is) not wood" (not a mere instrument, as man). On "no wood" compare Deuteronomy 32:21, "that which is not God;" Isaiah 31:8 shows that God is meant here by "not wood" [MAURER].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 10:15:
Psalms 110:2
Isaiah 37:26
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