Jesaja 10:7

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.

Jesaja 10:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:7

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so,
&c.] His purposes, intentions, and thoughts, were not as the Lord's; he did not imagine that he was only the rod of his anger, and the staff of his indignation, a minister of his wrath, and the executioner of his vengeance; he thought he was his own lord and master, and acted by his own power, and according to his own will, and was not under the direction and restraints of another; his intention was not to chastise and correct the people of the Jews, but utterly to destroy them, and not them only, but many other nations; as follows: but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations, not a few;
not the nation of the Jews only, but many others, and so establish an universal monarchy; and what flushed him with hope and expectation of success were the magnificence of his princes, and the conquests he had already made.

Jesaja 10:7 In-Context

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?

9 Ist nicht Kalno wie Karchemis? Nicht Hamath wie Arpad? Nicht Samaria wie Damaskus?