Isaiah 10:25

“For yet a very little while, &c.] Within a few days; for in a very short time after Sennacherib was come up against Jerusalem his army was destroyed by an angel: and the indignation shall cease; the indignation of the Lord against his people Israel, shown by bringing the Assyrian monarch against them, of which he was the staff or instrument, (<231005>Isaiah 10:5): and mine anger in their destruction; not in the destruction of the Jews, but the Assyrians: the sense is, that the anger of God towards the people of the Jews for the present should be discontinued, when the Assyrian army was destroyed. The Targum is, “for yet a very little while, and the curses shall cease from you of the house of…”

“For--Be not afraid (Isa 10:24), for, &c. indignation . . . cease--The punishments of God against Israel shall be consummated and ended (Isa 26:20; Dan 11:36). "Till the indignation be accomplished," &c. mine anger--shall turn to their (the Assyrians') destruction.”

“For yet a very little while - This is designed to console them with the hope of deliverance. The threatened invasion was brief and was soon ended by the pestilence that swept off the greater part of the army of the Assyrian. The indignation shall cease - The anger of God against his offending people shall come to an end; his purposes of chastisement shall be completed; and the land shall be delivered. In their destruction - על־תבליתם ‛al-tabelı̂ytām from בלה bâlâh, to wear out; to consume; to be annihilated. It means here, that his anger would terminate in the entire annihilation of their power to injure them. Such was the complete overthrow of Sennacherib by the pestilence; 2 Kings…”

“Indignation - Mine anger towards the Assyrian. Cease - As anger commonly does when vengeance is fully executed. Isaiah 10:26”

“For yet: Isa 10:33, Isa 10:34, Isa 12:1, Isa 12:2, Isa 14:24, Isa 14:25, Isa 17:12-14, Isa 30:30-33, Isa 31:4-9, Isa 37:36-38, Isa 54:7; Kg2 19:35; Psa 37:10; Dan 11:36; Heb 10:37 Isaiah 10:26”

“A still further reason is given for the elevating words, with a resumption of the grounds of consolation upon which they were founded. "For yet a very little the indignation is past, and my wrath turns to destroy them: and Jehovah of hosts moves the whip over it, as He smote Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff stretches out over the sea, and He lifts it up in the manner of Egypt." The expression "a very little" (as in Isa 16:14; Isa 29:17) does not date from the actual present, when the Assyrian oppressions had not yet begun, but from the ideal present, when they were threatening Israel with destruction. The indignation of Jehovah would then suddenly come to an end (câlâh za‛am,…”