Isaías 10:22

22 Pero aunque los hijos de Israel son tan numerosos
como la arena a la orilla del mar,
solo un remanente regresará.
El Señor
, con razón, ha decidido destruir a su pueblo.

Isaías 10:22 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:22

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,
&c.] These words are spoken either by the Lord to the prophet, calling Israel his people; or by the prophet to Hezekiah, as Jarchi and Kimchi think; or they may be rendered thus, "for though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea" ^F19; that is, innumerable, as was promised to Abraham, ( Genesis 22:17 ) ( Hosea 1:10 ) : [yet] a remnant of them shall return;
or "be converted in it" ^F20, to the Messiah; or "be saved", as the apostle interprets it, (See Gill on Romans 9:27); a remnant is a few, as Kimchi explains it, out of a great number: it signifies, that the majority of the Jewish nation should reject the Messiah, only a few of them should believe in him; and these should certainly believe in him, and be saved by him; and that for the following reason, because the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness;
that is, the precise and absolute decree, concerning the salvation of the remnant, God will cause to overflow, or abundantly execute, in a righteous manner, consistent with his divine perfections; and so it makes for the comfort of the remnant of the Lord's people, agreeably to the intent of the apostle's citation of it, (See Gill on Romans 9:28); though some understand it of God's punitive justice, in consuming and destroying the greater part of the Jewish people, the ungodly among them, and saving a remnant, which return and repent; and to this sense are the Targum, and the Jewish commentators.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 "Nam etsi fuerit populus tuus, O Israel, sicut arena maris", Piscator.
F20 (wb bwvy) "convertetur in eo", Montanus, Cocceius.

Isaías 10:22 In-Context

20 Esperanza para el pueblo del Señor
En ese día, el remanente que quedará en Israel,
los sobrevivientes de la casa de Jacob,
ya no seguirán confiando en aliados
que buscan destruirlos.
En cambio, confiarán fielmente en el Señor
,
el Santo de Israel.

21 Un remanente regresará;
sí, el remanente de Jacob regresará al Dios Poderoso.

22 Pero aunque los hijos de Israel son tan numerosos
como la arena a la orilla del mar,
solo un remanente regresará.
El Señor
, con razón, ha decidido destruir a su pueblo.

23 Sí, el Señor, el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales,
ya ha decidido destruir toda la tierra.

24 Así que esto dice el Señor, el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales: «Oh, mi pueblo de Sión, no temas a los asirios cuando te opriman con vara y con garrote como lo hicieron los egipcios hace mucho tiempo.