Isaiah 10:21

21 A remnant will return; yes, the remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.

Isaiah 10:21 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:21

The remnant shall return
This is said in allusion to Shearjashub, the name of Isaiah's son, ( Isaiah 7:3 ) which signifies "the remnant shall return", and was imposed on him, to give assurance of it; meaning, either that they should return from the Babylonish captivity, as they did, or to God by repentance; or rather the sense is, they shall turn to the Lord, be converted to Christ, to the faith and obedience of him, as some of them were when he came, a few, not all, only a remnant, as it is explained in the next clause: [even] the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God;
the Messiah, so called, ( Isaiah 9:6 ) . The Targum is,

``the remnant which have not sinned, and are turned from sin; the remnant of the house of Jacob shall return to worship before the mighty God.''

Isaiah 10:21 In-Context

19 Of all that glorious forest, only a few trees will survive— so few that a child could count them!

20 In that day the remnant left in Israel, the survivors in the house of Jacob, will no longer depend on allies who seek to destroy them. But they will faithfully trust the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

21 A remnant will return; yes, the remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.

22 But though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore, only a remnant of them will return. The LORD has rightly decided to destroy his people.

23 Yes, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, has already decided to destroy the entire land.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew Shear-jashub; see 7:3 ; 8:18 .