Isaiah 10:17

Translations

Modern

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Traditional

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;

Literal

And the Light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorn and his brier in one day.

Latin

Et erit lumen Israël in igne, et Sanctus ejus in flamma; et succendetur, et devorabitur spina ejus et vepres in die una.

Original

Hebrew

English

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Notes

Isaiah 10:5–19

God announced judgment on Assyria for several reasons:

They destroyed other nations without mercy (Isaiah 10:7).
They spoke with pride and dishonored God. They boasted about their own power (Isaiah 10:12).
They oppressed other peoples and took what did not belong to them (Isaiah 10:13–14).
They believed they were acting on their own. They did not recognize that God was using them (Isaiah 10:15).

Isaiah 10:5–11:16

Isaiah 9:8–10:4 shows that the Lord’s moral law is supreme. This means God’s standards of right and wrong stand above every nation and ruler. The next section explains what this truth means:

Assyria was only a tool in God’s hands. Because of this, Assyria was also responsible to God. Like every other nation, it would face judgment for its sin (Isaiah 10:5–19, 28–34).
Those among God’s people who trusted in him and obeyed his covenant would be rescued (Isaiah 10:20–27).
God would establish his kingdom on earth (Isaiah 11).

Isaiah 7:1–12:6

These prophecies occurred when Assyria rose to power. Syria and Israel formed an alliance against Judah (Isaiah 7:1–2; see 2 Kings 16:5). God used Assyria as a tool to punish Syria, Israel, and Judah (Isaiah 7–10).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Salvation in Isaiah The Holy One of Israel

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

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For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
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Jeremiah 4:4
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Numbers 11:1–3
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Isaiah 37:23
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
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Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
Revelation 21:23
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Malachi 4:1–3
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
Psalm 21:9
You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Branch Isaiah, Book of Jesse (Person) Thistle, Thorn

Topics

Assyria: Predictions Respecting: Destruction of Assyria: Prophecies Concerning Fire: Christ As Judge Fire: Consuming Fire: God's Enemies Forests: (Destroyed by Fire) of Destruction of the Wicked God: Judge, and his Justice Humility: The Who Have: Heard by God Isaiah: Prophecies, Reproofs, and Exhortations of Foretells the Destruction of Sennacherib's Armies The Providence of God: Danger of Denying

Isaiah 10:17

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