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Isaiah 10:16
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh of Hosts speaks through the prophet to Judah concerning Assyria, delivering this declaration immediately after the tool metaphor of Isaiah 10:15.
The words — לָכֵן (lāḵēn) = therefore, and שְׁמַנֵּי (shəmanney) = fat ones/stout warriors.
The thread — The pattern of God sending sudden wasting disease or divine execution on the proud recurs in 2 Chronicles 32:21, Psalms 106:15, and Acts 12:23.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that human might is merely an instrument wielded by God, and that national pomp will be consumed by the very fire it provokes.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 32:21 and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
- Psalms 106:15 So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
- Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Isaiah 5:17 Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
- Isaiah 9:5 For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
- Isaiah 10:18 The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
- Isaiah 14:24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
- Isaiah 17:4 “In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,
- Isaiah 29:5 But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- Isaiah 30:30 And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.