Isaiah 30:28

Isaiah 30:28

26 Moreover ^athe light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
As the light of seven days,
In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
And heals the stroke of their wound.

Judgment on Assyria

27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
Burning with His anger,
And His burden is heavy;
His lips are full of indignation,
And His tongue like a devouring fire.

28 ^aHis breath is like an overflowing stream,
^bWhich reaches up to the neck,
To sift the nations with the sieve of futility;
And there shall be ^ca bridle in the jaws of the people,
Causing them to err.

29 You shall have a song
As in the night when a holy festival is kept,
And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute,
To¹ come into ^athe mountain of the Lord,
To the Mighty One of Israel.

30 ^aThe Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard,
And show the descent of His arm,
With the indignation of His anger
And the flame of a devouring fire,
With scattering, tempest, ^band hailstones.

31 For ^athrough the voice of the Lord
Assyria will be¹ beaten down,
As He strikes with the ^brod.

32 And in every place where the staff of punishment passes,
Which the Lord lays on him,
It will be with tambourines and harps;
And in battles of ^abrandishing He will fight with it.

33 ^aFor Tophet was established of old,
Yes, for the king it is prepared.
He has made it deep and large;
Its pyre is fire with much wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone,
Kindles it.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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(Isaiah 11:4; II Thessalonians 2:8).

reach . . . neck—the most extreme danger; yet as the head, or capital of Judah, was to be spared (Isaiah 8:8), so the head, or sovereign of Assyria, Sennacherib, should escape.

sieve of vanity—Rather, "the winnowing fan of destruction" [LOWTH] (Isaiah 41:16).

bridle in . . . jaws—as prisoners are represented in the Assyrian inscriptions (Isaiah 37:29).

causing . . . to err— (Isaiah 63:17). "People," Hebrew, "peoples," namely, the various races composing the Assyrian armies (Isaiah 5:26).

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