Isaías 30:31

31 A voz do SENHOR despedaçará a Assíria;com seu cetro a ferirá.

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 E vocês cantarãocomo em noite de festa sagrada;seus corações se regozijarãocomo quando se vai, ao som da flauta,ao monte do SENHOR,à Rocha de Israel.

30 O SENHOR fará que os homens ouçam sua voz majestosae os levará a ver seu braço descendocom ira impetuosa e fogo consumidor,com aguaceiro, tempestades de raios e saraiva.

31 A voz do SENHOR despedaçará a Assíria;com seu cetro a ferirá.

32 Cada pancada que com a varao SENHOR desferir para a castigarserá dada ao som de tamborins e harpas,enquanto a estiver combatendo com os golpes do seu braço.

33 Tofete está pronta já faz tempo;foi preparada para o rei.Sua fogueira é funda e larga,com muita lenha e muito fogo;o sopro do SENHOR,como uma torrente de enxofre ardente,a incendeia.