So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes. So when the Lord has completed all His workThis phrase emphasizes the sovereignty and meticulous planning of God. The Hebrew word for "completed" is "כָּלָה" (kalah), which conveys the idea of finishing or bringing to an end. It suggests that God has a specific purpose and timeline for His actions. Historically, this reflects the belief that God is actively involved in the affairs of nations, guiding history according to His divine will. The "work" refers to God's judgment and purification process, which is both a warning and a promise of eventual restoration. against Mount Zion and Jerusalem
Mount Zion and Jerusalem are central to Jewish identity and faith, representing the heart of God's chosen people. The mention of these places underscores the seriousness of the judgment, as they are symbolic of God's dwelling and the spiritual center of Israel. The historical context here is crucial, as Jerusalem was often under threat from surrounding nations, yet it remained the focal point of God's covenant promises. This phrase reminds believers of the importance of faithfulness and the consequences of straying from God's commands. I will punish the king of Assyria
The king of Assyria represents the epitome of pride and arrogance against God. The Hebrew word for "punish" is "פָּקַד" (paqad), which can mean to visit, attend to, or reckon with. This indicates that God holds nations and leaders accountable for their actions. Historically, Assyria was a dominant power known for its cruelty and oppression. This phrase reassures believers that no earthly power is beyond God's reach and that divine justice will prevail. for the fruit of his arrogant heart
The "fruit" symbolizes the outcomes or consequences of one's inner attitudes and actions. The Hebrew word "פְּרִי" (peri) often refers to produce or results. The "arrogant heart" highlights the sin of pride, which is consistently condemned throughout Scripture. This phrase serves as a warning against self-exaltation and a reminder that God values humility. It reflects the biblical principle that what is sown in pride will be reaped in judgment. and the proud look in his eyes
The "proud look" is a metaphor for haughtiness and self-reliance. In Hebrew, "רָמוּת" (ramut) conveys loftiness or exaltation. Eyes are often seen as windows to the soul, indicating one's true character. This phrase underscores the biblical teaching that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). It serves as a call to self-examination, urging believers to cultivate a spirit of humility and dependence on God. Persons / Places / Events 1. The LordThe sovereign God who orchestrates events according to His divine plan and justice. 2. Mount Zion and JerusalemRepresent the people of God, specifically the Israelites, who are under God's judgment and protection. 3. The King of AssyriaA representation of human pride and arrogance, used by God as an instrument of judgment but also subject to God's justice. 4. AssyriaA powerful empire used by God to discipline Israel but ultimately held accountable for its own pride and actions. 5. Judgment and PunishmentThe divine actions taken by God to correct and discipline His people and to hold nations accountable for their pride and sin. Teaching Points God's Sovereignty in JudgmentGod uses nations and leaders to accomplish His purposes, but they remain accountable for their actions. The Danger of PridePride leads to downfall, as seen in the Assyrian king's fate. Believers must guard against pride in their own lives. God's Faithfulness to His PeopleDespite using Assyria to discipline Israel, God remains committed to His covenant with His people. The Importance of HumilityHumility is essential in maintaining a right relationship with God and avoiding the pitfalls of pride. Trust in God's JusticeBelievers can trust that God will ultimately bring justice and hold all accountable for their actions. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the Lord's use of Assyria as an instrument of judgment demonstrate His sovereignty? 2. In what ways can pride manifest in our own lives, and how can we guard against it? 3. How does the fate of the Assyrian king serve as a warning to us today? 4. What does this passage teach us about God's faithfulness to His people, even in times of discipline? 5. How can we apply the principle of humility in our daily interactions and relationship with God? Connections to Other Scriptures Isaiah 37This chapter describes the downfall of the Assyrian army, fulfilling God's promise to punish Assyria for its arrogance. Proverbs 16:18This verse highlights the principle that pride precedes destruction, which is evident in the fate of the Assyrian king. Romans 11:20-22These verses remind believers of the importance of humility and the consequences of pride, similar to the lesson learned by Assyria. James 4:6This verse emphasizes that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble, a theme evident in God's dealings with Assyria and Israel. People Anathoth, Assyrians, Egyptians, Isaiah, Jacob, Laish, Oreb, SaulPlaces Aiath, Anathoth, Arpad, Assyria, Calno, Carchemish, Damascus, Egypt, Gallim, Geba, Gibeah, Hamath, Jerusalem, Laishah, Lebanon, Madmenah, Michmash, Midian, Migron, Mount Zion, Nob, Ramah, Samaria, ZionTopics Arrogant, Asshur, Assyria, Boasting, Cause, Complete, Completed, Finished, Fruit, Fulfil, Glory, Greatness, Haughtiness, Haughty, Heart, Height, Insolence, Jerusalem, Looks, Mount, Pass, Performed, Pomp, Pride, Proud, Punish, Punishment, Purpose, Stout, Stoutness, Uplifted, Wherefore, Willful, ZionDictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 10:12 5016 heart, fallen and redeemed
5961 superiority
7216 exile, in Assyria
8805 pride, results
9210 judgment, God's Isaiah 10:12-14 5550 speech, negative
6121 boasting Isaiah 10:12-15 5776 achievement Isaiah 10:12-19 5606 warfare, nature of Library Light or Fire?
'And the Light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.'--ISAIAH x. 17. With grand poetry the prophet pictures the Assyrian power as a forest consumed like thistles and briers by the fire of God. The text suggests solemn truths about the divine Nature and its manifestations. I. The Essential Character of God. Light and Holiness are substantially parallel. Light symbolises purity, but also knowledge and joy. Holiness …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureNob. Bahurim.
That Nob was placed in the land of Benjamin, not far from Jerusalem, whence Jerusalem also might be seen,--the words of the Chaldee paraphrast, upon Isaiah 10:32, do argue. For so he speaks; "Sennacherib came and stood in Nob, a city of the priests, before the walls of Jerusalem; and said to his army, 'Is not this the city of Jerusalem, against which I have raised my whole army, and have subdued all the provinces of it? Is it not small and weak in comparison of all the fortifications of the Gentiles, …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Covenanting Predicted in Prophecy.
The fact of Covenanting, under the Old Testament dispensations, being approved of God, gives a proof that it was proper then, which is accompanied by the voice of prophecy, affording evidence that even in periods then future it should no less be proper. The argument for the service that is afforded by prophecy is peculiar, and, though corresponding with evidence from other sources, is independent. Because that God willed to make known truth through his servants the prophets, we should receive it …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting If Then the Prophets Prophesied that the Son of God was to Appear Upon The...
If then the prophets prophesied that the Son of God was to appear upon the earth, and prophesied also where on the earth and how and in what manner He should make known His appearance, and all these prophecies the Lord took upon Himself; our faith in Him was well-founded, and the tradition of the preaching (is) true: that is to say, the testimony of the apostles, who being sent forth by the Lord preached in all the world the Son of God, who came to suffer, and endured to the destruction of death …
Irenæus—The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching His Holy Covenant
"To remember His Holy Covenant; to grant unto us that we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, should serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all our days."-LUKE i. 68-75. WHEN Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, he spoke of God's visiting and redeeming His people, as a remembering of His Holy Covenant. He speaks of what the blessings of that Covenant would be, not in words that had been used before, but in what is manifestly a Divine revelation …
Andrew Murray—The Two Covenants The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He Continues Free from Every Taint.
1. The carnal mind the source of the objections which are raised against the Providence of God. A primary objection, making a distinction between the permission and the will of God, refuted. Angels and men, good and bad, do nought but what has been decreed by God. This proved by examples. 2. All hidden movements directed to their end by the unseen but righteous instigation of God. Examples, with answers to objections. 3. These objections originate in a spirit of pride and blasphemy. Objection, that …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion King of Kings and Lord of Lords
And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, K ING OF K INGS AND L ORD OF L ORDS T he description of the administration and glory of the Redeemer's Kingdom, in defiance of all opposition, concludes the second part of Messiah Oratorio. Three different passages from the book of Revelation are selected to form a grand chorus, of which Handel's title in this verse is the close --a title which has been sometimes vainly usurped by proud worms of this earth. Eastern monarchs, in particular, …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2 Humility is the Root of Charity, and Meekness the Fruit of Both. ...
Humility is the root of charity, and meekness the fruit of both. There is no solid and pure ground of love to others, except the rubbish of self-love be first cast out of the soul; and when that superfluity of naughtiness is cast out, then charity hath a solid and deep foundation: "The end of the command is charity out of a pure heart," 1 Tim. i. 5. It is only such a purified heart, cleansed from that poison and contagion of pride and self-estimation, that can send out such a sweet and wholesome …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Purposes of God.
In discussing this subject I shall endeavor to show, I. What I understand by the purposes of God. Purposes, in this discussion, I shall use as synonymous with design, intention. The purposes of God must be ultimate and proximate. That is, God has and must have an ultimate end. He must purpose to accomplish something by his works and providence, which he regards as a good in itself, or as valuable to himself, and to being in general. This I call his ultimate end. That God has such an end or purpose, …
Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology A Discourse of the House and Forest of Lebanon
OF THE HOUSE OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. That part of Palestine in which the celebrated mountains of Lebanon are situated, is the border country adjoining Syria, having Sidon for its seaport, and Land, nearly adjoining the city of Damascus, on the north. This metropolitan city of Syria, and capital of the kingdom of Damascus, was strongly fortified; and during the border conflicts it served as a cover to the Assyrian army. Bunyan, with great reason, supposes that, to keep …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 Of Antichrist, and his Ruin: and of the Slaying the Witnesses.
BY JOHN BUNYAN PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR This important treatise was prepared for the press, and left by the author, at his decease, to the care of his surviving friend for publication. It first appeared in a collection of his works in folio, 1692; and although a subject of universal interest; most admirably elucidated; no edition has been published in a separate form. Antichrist has agitated the Christian world from the earliest ages; and his craft has been to mislead the thoughtless, by …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 The Providence of God
Q-11: WHAT ARE GOD'S WORKS OF PROVIDENCE? A: God's works of providence are the acts of his most holy, wise, and powerful government of his creatures, and of their actions. Of the work of God's providence Christ says, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.' John 5:17. God has rested from the works of creation, he does not create any new species of things. He rested from all his works;' Gen 2:2; and therefore it must needs be meant of his works of providence: My Father worketh and I work.' His kingdom …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Concerning Christian Liberty
CHRISTIAN faith has appeared to many an easy thing; nay, not a few even reckon it among the social virtues, as it were; and this they do, because they have not made proof of it experimentally, and have never tasted of what efficacy it is. For it is not possible for any man to write well about it, or to understand well what is rightly written, who has not at some time tasted of its spirit, under the pressure of tribulation. While he who has tasted of it, even to a very small extent, can never write, …
Martin Luther—First Principles of the Reformation And for Your Fearlessness against them Hold this Sure Sign -- Whenever There Is...
43. And for your fearlessness against them hold this sure sign--whenever there is any apparition, be not prostrate with fear, but whatsoever it be, first boldly ask, Who art thou? And from whence comest thou? And if it should be a vision of holy ones they will assure you, and change your fear into joy. But if the vision should be from the devil, immediately it becomes feeble, beholding your firm purpose of mind. For merely to ask, Who art thou [1083] ? and whence comest thou? is a proof of coolness. …
Athanasius—Select Works and Letters or Athanasius Isaiah
CHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as …
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