Jesaja 10:6

6 Wider eine ruchlose Nation werde ich ihn senden und gegen das Volk meines Grimmes ihn entbieten, um Raub zu rauben und Beute zu erbeuten, und es der Zertretung hinzugeben gleich Straßenkot.

Jesaja 10:6 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a hypocritical nation
The people of Israel, who might well be called so, since everyone of them was a hypocrite, ( Isaiah 9:17 ) pretending to love, fear, and serve the Lord, when it was only outwardly, and by profession, and not in deed, and in truth; their character contains the reason of the Lord's calling and sending the Assyrian to correct and chastise them: and against the people of my wrath:
who provoked him to wrath, were deserving of it, and upon whom he was about to bring it; it was their hypocrisy that stirred up his wrath against them; nothing is more hateful to God than that: will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey:
that is, the Assyrian monarch, to make a spoil and a prey of the people of the Jews, not by any legal commission, or express command, but by the secret power of his providence, guiding and directing him into the land of Judea, to ravage and spoil it: and to tread them down like the mire of the streets:
which denotes the great subjection of the inhabitants of it to him; the very low and mean estate into which they should be brought; the great contempt they should be had in; the little account that should be had of them; and their inability to help and recover themselves.

Jesaja 10:6 In-Context

4 Nichts anderes bleibt übrig, als unter Gefesselten sich zu krümmen; und unter Erschlagenen fallen sie hin. Bei dem allen wendet sich sein Zorn nicht ab, und noch ist seine Hand ausgestreckt.

5 He! Assyrer, Rute meines Zornes! Und der Stock in seiner Hand ist mein Grimm.

6 Wider eine ruchlose Nation werde ich ihn senden und gegen das Volk meines Grimmes ihn entbieten, um Raub zu rauben und Beute zu erbeuten, und es der Zertretung hinzugeben gleich Straßenkot.

7 Er aber meint es nicht also, und sein Herz denkt nicht also; sondern zu vertilgen hat er im Sinne und auszurotten nicht wenige Nationen.

8 Denn er spricht: Sind nicht meine Fürsten allesamt Könige?