Isaías 10:5-34

Juicio de Dios sobre Asiria

5 «¡Ay de Asiria, vara de mi ira!¡El garrote de mi enojo está en su mano!

6 Lo envío contra una nación impía,lo mando contra un pueblo que me enfurece,para saquearlo y despojarlo,para pisotearlo como al barro de las calles.

7 Pero esto Asiria no se lo propuso;¡ni siquiera lo pensó!Solo busca destruiry aniquilar a muchas naciones.

8 Pues dice: “¿Acaso no son reyes todos mis jefes?

9 ¿No es Calnó como Carquemis?¿No es Jamat como Arfad,y Samaria como Damasco?

10 Así como alcanzó mi manoa los reinos de los ídolos,reinos cuyas imágenes superabana las de Jerusalén y de Samaria,

11 y así como hice con Samaria y sus dioses,también haré con Jerusalén y sus ídolos”».

12 Cuando el Señor termine lo que va a hacer contra el monte Sión y contra Jerusalén, él dirá: «Castigaré el fruto del orgulloso corazón del rey de Asiria y la arrogancia de sus ojos».

13 Porque afirma:«Esto lo hizo el poder de mi mano;lo hizo mi sabiduría,porque soy inteligente.He cambiado las fronteras de los pueblos,he saqueado sus tesoros;como un guerrero poderosohe derribado a sus reyes.

14 Como quien mete la mano en un nido,me he adueñado de la riqueza de los pueblos;como quien recoge huevos abandonados,me he apoderado de toda la tierra;y no hubo nadie que aletearani abriera el pico y chillara».

15 ¿Puede acaso gloriarse el hachamás que el que la maneja,o jactarse la sierra contra quien la usa?¡Como si pudiera el bastón manejara quien lo tiene en la mano,o la frágil vara pudiera levantara quien pesa más que la madera!

16 Por eso enviará el Señor,el SEÑORTodopoderoso,una enfermedad devastadorasobre sus robustos guerreros.En vez de honrarlos, les prenderá fuego,un fuego como de llama ardiente.

17 La luz de Israel se convertirá en fuego;su Santo se volverá una llama.En un solo día quemará sus espinosy consumirá sus zarzas.

18 Destruirá de extremo a extremoel esplendor de sus bosques y de sus huertos,como enfermo carcomido por la plaga.

19 Tan pocos árboles quedarán en su bosqueque hasta un niño podrá contarlos.

El remanente de Israel

20 En aquel día ni el remanente de Israelni los sobrevivientes del pueblo de Jacobvolverán a apoyarseen quien los hirió de muerte,sino que su apoyo verdaderoserá el SEÑOR, el Santo de Israel.

21 Y un remanente volverá;^[a]un remanente de Jacob volverá al Dios Poderoso.

22 Israel,aunque tu pueblo sea como la arena del mar,solo un remanente volverá.Se ha decretado destrucción,abrumadora justicia.

23 Porque el Señor, el SEÑORTodopoderoso,ejecutará la destrucción decretadaen medio de todo el país.

24 Por eso, así dice el Señor, el SEÑOR Todopoderoso:«Pueblo mío, que vives en Sión,no tengas temor de Asiria,aunque te golpee con el bastóny contra ti levante una vara,como lo hizo Egipto.

25 Dentro de muy poco tiempomi indignación contra ti llegará a su fin,y mi ira destruirá a tus enemigos».

26 Con un látigo los azotaráel SEÑOR Todopoderoso,como cuando abatió a Madiánen la roca de Oreb;levantará sobre el mar su vara,como lo hizo en Egipto.

27 En aquel díaesa carga se te quitará de los hombros,y a causa de la gordurase romperá el yugo que llevas en el cuello.

28 Llega el enemigo hasta Ayat,pasa por Migrón,y deja en Micmás su equipaje.

29 Cruza el vado, y dice:«Acamparemos en Gueba».Ramá se pone a temblar,y huye Guibeá, ciudad de Saúl.

30 ¡Clama a gritos, hija de Galín!¡Escucha, Lais!¡Pobre Anatot!

31 Se ha puesto en fuga Madmena;los habitantes de Guebín buscan refugio.

32 Hoy mismo se detendrá en Nob;agitará su puño contra el montede la ciudad de Sión,el monte de Jerusalén.

33 ¡Miren! El Señor, el SEÑOR Todopoderoso,desgaja las ramas con fuerza increíble.Los árboles más altos son talados;los más elevados son abatidos.

34 Derriba con un hacha la espesura del bosque,y el esplendor del Líbano se viene abajo.

Isaías 10:5-34 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. "un remanente volverá" . Véase nota en 7:3.