Isaiah 31:8

Isaiah 31:8

6 Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have ^adeeply revolted.

7 For in that day every man shall ^athrow away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—^bsin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.

8 “Then Assyria shall ^afall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of mankind shall ^bdevour him.
But he shall flee from the sword,
And his young men shall become forced labor.

9 ^aHe shall cross over to his stronghold for fear,
And his princes shall be afraid of the banner,”
Says the Lord,
Whose fire is in Zion
And whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Assyrian—Sennacherib, representative of some powerful head of the ungodly in the latter ages [HORSLEY].

sword, not of . . . mighty . . . mean man—but by the unseen sword of God.

flee—Sennacherib alone fled homewards after his army had been destroyed (Isaiah 37:37).

young men—the flower of his army.

discomfited—rather, "shall be subject to slavery"; literally, "shall be liable to tribute," that is, personal service (Deuteronomy 20:11; Joshua 9:21) [MAURER]. Or, not so well, "shall melt away" [ROSENMULLER].

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