Ésaïe 30:31

31 Car, à la voix de l'Éternel, Assur tremblera. Il le frappera de sa verge;

Ésaïe 30:31 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 30:31

For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be
beaten down
As anything is by a storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain: or "fear", or be "affrighted", as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it; Sennacherib, the Assyrian monarch, and that part of his army which escaped, though not destroyed by it, were put into the utmost consternation: this shows that the prophecy in the context refers to the overthrow of the Assyrian army by the angel, when besieging Jerusalem in Hezekiah's time; though the Assyrian is sometimes used for any enemy of God's people at other times, particularly antichrist, and especially the eastern antichrist, the Turk:

[which] smote with a rod;
other nations, particularly the Jews, whom the Assyrian is expressly said to smite with a rod; and because he was an instrument in God's hand for the chastising of that people, he is called the rod of his anger, ( Isaiah 10:5 Isaiah 10:24 ) but now he that smote shall be smitten himself; him whom God used as a rod to correct others, he will smite with his rod, for his own correction: for this may be understood of God, and be rendered thus, "with a rod, he", that is, God, "shall smite" the Assyrian, as before; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi. The Targum interprets the "rod" of dominion.

Ésaïe 30:31 In-Context

29 Vous chanterez comme dans la nuit où l'on célèbre la fête; vous aurez la joie dans le cœur, comme celui qui monte au son de la flûte, pour venir à la montagne de l'Éternel, vers le Rocher d'Israël.

30 Et l'Éternel fera entendre sa voix majestueuse; il fera voir son bras qui s'abaisse, dans l'indignation de sa colère, au milieu des flammes d'un feu dévorant, de l'orage, de la pluie violente et de la grêle pesante.

31 Car, à la voix de l'Éternel, Assur tremblera. Il le frappera de sa verge;

32 Et partout où passera la verge que Dieu lui destine, et qu'il fera tomber sur lui, on entendra les tambourins et les harpes; il combattra contre lui à main levée.

33 Car dès longtemps il est réservé pour Thopheth, et Thopheth est préparé pour le roi. On a fait son bûcher, profond et large, avec du feu, du bois en abondance; le souffle de l'Éternel, comme un torrent de soufre, va l'embraser.