Isaías 10:2-12

2 Privan a los pobres de la justicia
y les niegan sus derechos a los necesitados de mi pueblo.
Explotan a las viudas
y se aprovechan de los huérfanos.

3 ¿Qué harán cuando yo los castigue,
cuando envíe el desastre sobre ustedes desde una tierra lejana?
¿A quién acudirán en busca de ayuda?
¿Dónde estarán seguros sus tesoros?

4 Irán tropezando como prisioneros
o quedarán tendidos entre los muertos.
Pero aun así no quedará satisfecho el enojo del Señor
;
su puño sigue preparado para dar el golpe.

5 Juicio contra Asiria
«Qué aflicción le espera a Asiria, la vara de mi ira.
Yo la empleo como garrote para expresar mi enojo.

6 Envío a Asiria contra una nación pagana;
contra un pueblo con el cual estoy enojado.
Asiria los saqueará,
y los pisoteará como a polvo debajo de sus pies.

7 Pero el rey de Asiria no comprenderá que es mi instrumento;
su mente no funciona de esa forma.
Su plan solo consiste en destruir;
en aplastar a las naciones, una tras otra.

8 Dirá:
“Pronto cada uno de mis príncipes será un rey.

9 Hemos destruido a Calno como hicimos antes con Carquemis.
Hamat cayó ante nosotros como antes había caído Arfad,
y destruimos a Samaria como lo hicimos con Damasco.

10 Sí, hemos acabado con muchos reinos
cuyos dioses eran más grandes que los de Jerusalén y de Samaria.

11 Por eso derrotaremos a Jerusalén y a sus dioses,
tal como destruimos a Samaria con sus dioses”».

12 Después de que el Señor
haya utilizado al rey de Asiria para llevar a cabo sus propósitos en el monte Sión y en Jerusalén, se volverá contra el rey de Asiria y lo castigará, porque es soberbio y arrogante.

Isaías 10:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 10

This chapter contains denunciations of punishment, first on the governors of the Jewish nation, and then upon the Assyrians; a woe is denounced on the makers and imposers of bad laws, whereby the poor and the needy, the widows and the fatherless, were deprived of their right, Isa 10:1,2 which woe or punishment is explained to be a desolation of their country by the Assyrians, that should come afar off, and which they could not escape; under whom they should bow and fall; and yet there should not be an end of their punishment, Isa 10:3,4 next follows a prophecy of the destruction of the Assyrians themselves, for the comfort of God's people; in which is observed, that the Assyrian monarch was an instrument in the hand of the Lord to chastise his people, and therefore is called the rod and staff of his wrath and indignation, Isa 10:5 the people are described against whom he was sent, and the end for which is mentioned, Isa 10:6 though this was not his intention, nor did he design to stop here, but to destroy and cut off many other nations, Isa 10:7 which he hoped to do from the magnificence of his princes, who were as kings, and from the conquests he had made of kingdoms, and their chief cities, Isa 10:8-11 wherefore, when the Lord had done what he designed to do by him among his people the Jews, he was determined to punish him, because of the pride of his heart, and the haughtiness of his looks, and his boasting of his strength and wisdom, and of his robberies and plunders, without opposition; which boasting was as foolish as if an axe, a saw, a rod, and a staff, should boast, magnify, move, and lift up themselves against the person that made use of them, Isa 10:12-15 which punishment is said to come from the Lord, and is expressed by leanness, and by a consuming and devouring fire; for which reason his army is compared to thorns and briers, to a forest, and a fruitful field, which should be destroyed at once; so that what of the trees remained should be so few as to be numbered by a child, Isa 10:16-19 and, for the further consolation of the people of God, it is observed, that in the times following the destruction of the Assyrian monarchy, a remnant of the people of Israel should be converted, and no more lean upon an arm of flesh, but upon the Lord Christ, the Holy One of Israel; even a remnant only; for though that people were very numerous, yet a remnant, according to the election of grace, should be saved, when it was the determinate counsel of God, and according to his righteous judgment, to destroy the far greater part of them, for their perverseness and obstinacy, Isa 10:20-23 wherefore the people of God are exhorted not to be afraid of the Assyrian, though chastised by him; since in a little time the anger of the Lord would cease in his destruction, which should be after the manner of the Egyptians at the Red sea, and as the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; whereby they would be free from his burden and yoke, because of the anointed King that should reign, or the King Messiah, Isa 10:24-27 and then follows a description of the expedition of the king of Assyria into Judea, by making mention of the several places through which he should pass with terror to the inhabitants, until he should come to Jerusalem, against which he should shake his hand, Isa 10:28-32 and then, under the similes of lopping a bough, and cutting down the thickets of a forest, and the trees of Lebanon, is predicted the destruction of his army and its generals by an angel, Isa 10:33,34.