Isaías 30:31

31 Porque a la voz del SEÑOR, Asiria se aterrará cuando El hiera con la vara.

Isaías 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.

Isaías 30:31 In-Context

29 Tendréis cánticos como en la noche en que celebráis la fiesta, y alegría de corazón como cuando uno marcha al son de la flauta, para ir al monte del SEÑOR, a la Roca de Israel.

30 Y el SEÑOR hará oír la majestad de su voz, y dejará ver el descenso de su brazo con furia de ira y llama de fuego consumidor, con turbión, aguacero y piedra de granizo.

31 Porque a la voz del SEÑOR, Asiria se aterrará cuando El hiera con la vara.

32 Y cada golpe de la vara de castigo que el SEÑOR descargue sobre ella, será al son de panderos y liras; y en batallas, blandiendo armas, El peleará contra ellos.

33 Porque Tofet está preparado desde hace tiempo, ciertamente, ha sido dispuesto para el rey. El lo ha hecho profundo y ancho, una pira de fuego con abundante leña; el soplo del SEÑOR, como torrente de azufre, lo enciende.