Isaiah 10:6

“I will send him against a hypocritical nation, &c.] The people of Israel, who might well be called so, since everyone of them was a hypocrite, (<230917>Isaiah 9:17) pretending to love, fear, and serve the Lord, when it was only outwardly, and by profession, and not in deed, and in truth; their character contains the reason of the Lord’s calling and sending the Assyrian to correct and chastise them: and against the people of my wrath: who provoked him to wrath, were deserving of it, and upon whom he was about to bring it; it was their hypocrisy that stirred up his wrath against them; nothing is more hateful to God than that: will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey:…”

“send him--"Kings' hearts are in the hand of the Lord" (Pro 21:1). hypocritical--polluted [HORSLEY]. nation--Judah, against whom Sennacherib was forming designs. of my wrath--objects of My wrath. give . . . charge-- (Jer 34:22). and to tread, &c.--HORSLEY translates: "And then to make him (the Assyrian) a trampling under foot like the mire of the streets" (so Isa 10:12; Isa 33:1; Zac 10:5). But see Isa 37:26.”

“I will send him - Implying that he was entirely in the hand of God, and subject to his direction; and showing that God has control over kings and conqueror’s; Proverbs 21:1. Against an hypocritical nation - Whether the prophet here refers to Ephraim, or to Judah, or to the Jewish people in general, has been an object of inquiry among interpreters. As the designs of Sennacherib were mainly against Judah. it is probable that that part of the nation was intended. This is evidently the case, if, as has been supposed, the prophecy was uttered after the captivity of the ten tribes; see Isaiah 10:20. It need scarcely be remarked, that it was eminently the characteristic of the nation that they were…”

“Send him - By my providence, giving him both occasion and inclination to this expedition. Isaiah 10:7”

“10:6 Despite their privileged calling as God’s covenant people, Judah had become a godless nation, making them the object of God’s anger (10:4). • The word plunder translates both the Hebrew words shalal and baz, recalling the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz (see 5:19; 8:1, 3, 5-10).”

“against: Isa 9:17, Isa 19:17, Isa 29:13, Isa 30:9-11, Isa 33:14; Jer 3:10, Jer 4:14; Mat 15:7 will I give: Isa 10:13, Isa 10:14, Isa 37:26, Isa 37:27, Isa 41:25, Isa 45:1-5; Jer 25:9, Jer 34:22, Jer 47:6, Jer 47:7 tread them: Heb. lay them a treading, Isa 22:5, Isa 63:3, Isa 63:6; Sa2 22:43; Mic 7:10; Zac 10:5 Isaiah 10:7”