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Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees See also: Luke 11:52Micah 3:1-4Matthew 23:23to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! See also: Malachi 3:5Isaiah 3:14Isaiah 5:23What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth? See also: Luke 19:44Hosea 9:7Job 31:14They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. See also: Isaiah 5:25Isaiah 9:12Deuteronomy 32:30Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! See also: Isaiah 10:15Isaiah 14:25Isaiah 30:30I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. See also: Isaiah 9:17Jeremiah 34:22Jeremiah 47:6-7However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. See also: Genesis 50:20Acts 2:23Micah 4:11-12For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings? See also: 2 Kings 18:242 Kings 19:10Isaiah 36:8Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?” See also: 2 Kings 16:92 Chronicles 35:20Jeremiah 46:2As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria, See also: 2 Kings 19:17-192 Chronicles 32:12-162 Chronicles 32:19shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? See also: Isaiah 37:10-13Isaiah 36:19-20Isaiah 2:8Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks. See also: Jeremiah 50:18Ezekiel 31:14Isaiah 27:9For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. See also: Deuteronomy 8:17Daniel 4:30Hosea 13:15-16My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.” See also: Job 31:25Hosea 12:7-8Nahum 2:9Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood. See also: Romans 9:20-21Isaiah 45:9Isaiah 10:5Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. See also: 2 Chronicles 32:21Psalms 106:15Acts 12:23The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. See also: Isaiah 27:4Isaiah 37:23Revelation 22:5He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. See also: 2 Kings 19:23Isaiah 10:33-342 Kings 19:28The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number. See also: Isaiah 37:36Isaiah 21:17It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. See also: Isaiah 37:31-32Isaiah 17:7-82 Chronicles 28:20A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. See also: Isaiah 9:6Hosea 6:12 Corinthians 3:14-16For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. See also: Romans 9:27-28Isaiah 6:13Romans 11:5-6For the Lord, GOD of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth. See also: Isaiah 28:22Isaiah 14:26-27Romans 9:28Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, says, “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did. See also: Hebrews 12:22-24Isaiah 37:6Isaiah 61:3For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.” See also: Daniel 11:362 Kings 19:35Hebrews 10:37The LORD of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt. See also: Isaiah 9:4Judges 7:252 Kings 19:35It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil. See also: Isaiah 9:4Luke 4:18Isaiah 14:25He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage. See also: 1 Samuel 14:21 Samuel 13:21 Samuel 13:5They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled. See also: 1 Samuel 13:231 Samuel 7:17Jeremiah 31:15Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth! See also: 1 Samuel 25:44Jeremiah 1:1Joshua 21:18Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. See also: Joshua 15:31This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. See also: 1 Samuel 21:1Isaiah 37:221 Samuel 22:19Behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. See also: Amos 2:9Isaiah 37:38Daniel 4:37He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One. See also: Isaiah 37:24Isaiah 31:8Nahum 1:12
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 10:1
Ver. 1. Injustice. These great ones excite God's indignation. C. --- Jeroboam forbidding any to go to Jerusalem; and the Pharisees establishing their wicked traditions, ruined all. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 10:3
Ver. 3. Afar. When Salmanasar shall come from Ninive to destroy Samaria, to punish the people for their idolatry (C.) and oppressions. H. --- Glory. Golden calves, (Ose. viii. 5. and x. 5.) or possessions. C. ix. 8.
↑ 3Isaiah 10:5
Ver. 5. Woe. Or come on, Heus, though (C.) ho is ordinarily rendered, alas! It here indicates that God makes use of this scourge with regret, and will afterwards consign it to the flames. H. ---
The prophet speaks of Salmanasar, or of Sennacherib. S. Cyr. S. Jer.
↑ 5Isaiah 10:6
Ver. 6. Deceitful. Heb. "hypocritical," joining my worship with that of idols. C.
--- They had solemnly promised to serve the Lord. Ex. xix. 8. W.
↑ 6Isaiah 10:7
Ver. 7. So. He will not think that he is executing my vengeance, supposing that he conquers by his own power.
↑ 7Isaiah 10:9
Ver. 9. As. Lit. "altogether kings." H. --- Thus Nabuchodonosor kept the conquered princes for derision. Hab. i. 10. Judg. i. 7. --- Arphad, Arad, or rather Raphanæ. Jer. xlix. 23. --- Damascus.
These two cities were not yet subdued.
↑ 9Isaiah 10:10
Ver. 10. Idols. He looks upon the true God as no better than any idols, (4 K.
xviii. 32.) and falsely supposes that the latter were adored in Jerusalem. C.
↑ 10Isaiah 10:12
Ver. 12. Works. Humbling and terrifying Ezechias and his subjects, who were reduced to great distress, in order to avert the impending war. H. --- Eyes. The Assyrians were punished in their turn.
↑ 12Isaiah 10:14
Ver. 14. Nest. Some put these words in the mouth of God. Tert. Abdias 4. --- But they shew the insolence of Sennacherib.
↑ 14Isaiah 10:15
Ver. 15. Axe. The Assyrian has no right to boast. What can man do without God's assistance?
C. --- Gratiæ tuæ deputo et quæcumque non feci mala. S. Aug. Conf. ii. 7. ---
Sennacherib persecuted the Jews of his own free will, though he was God's instrument. W.
↑ 15Isaiah 10:16
Ver. 16. Fire. The Jews assert, that 185,000 perished by an inward burning, so that only ten men were left. v. 19. S. Jer.
↑ 16Isaiah 10:17
Ver. 17. Light. God. H. --- Thorns. Private soldiers. C.
↑ 17Isaiah 10:18
Ver. 18. Glory. Officers. --- Flesh. Or body. All shall perish. H. --- Fear.
Sennacherib escaped alone, and fell by the sword of his own sons.
↑ 18Isaiah 10:20
Ver. 20. Israel now submitted to Ezechias, as their kingdom was overturned in the sixth year of his reign, eight years before Sennacherib's arrival. Isaias speaks of this time, and therefore makes no distinction of the kingdoms.
Striketh the Assyrian.
↑ 20Isaiah 10:22
Ver. 22. Converted. This was partly verified in the children of Israel who remained after the devastations of the Assyrians, in the time of king Ezechias: and partly in the conversion of a remnant of the Jews to the faith of Christ. Ch.
--- 4 K. xviii. 3. Rom. ix. 27. The apostle follows the Sept. (C.) "and if the people of Israel be." --- Converted. Sept. "saved, for perfecting the word and abridging in justice. Because God, the Lord of hosts, will make an abridged word in the universe." H. --- As the apostle has explained this passage, "every other interpretation must cease." S. Jer. --- The few who were converted under Ezechias were a figure of those who should embrace the faith of Christ. C. ---
Consumption. That is, the number of them cut short, and reduced to few, shall flourish in the abundance of justice. Ch. --- Heb. "the desolation is decreed, justice shall overflow." God will treat all with rigour. Nah. i. 8. The incredulous Jews shall be rejected. v. 23. Rom. ix.
↑ 22Isaiah 10:24
Ver. 24. Egypt. He sent Rabsaces from Lachis, when he set out to meet Tharaca. 4 K. xix.
↑ 24Isaiah 10:25
Ver. 25. Little. Twenty-eight years, (Ps. lxxxix. 4.) or he alludes to the destruction which took place in a single night, (C.) or in a moment. v. 16. H.
↑ 25Isaiah 10:26
Ver. 26. Oreb. Judg. vii. 25. --- And his. Moses thus let loose the waters of the Red Sea on the Egyptians, by stretching forth his rod. C.
↑ 26Isaiah 10:27
Ver. 27. Oil. That is, by the sweet unction of divine mercy. Ch. --- Chal. "before the anointed,"
in consideration of Ezechias and Isaias. In the higher sense, it denotes the victory of Christ over the devil. C.
↑ 27Isaiah 10:28
Ver. 28. Into Aiath, &c. Here the prophet describes the march of the Assyrians under Sennacherib; and the terror they should carry with them; and how they should suddenly be destroyed. Ch.
↑ 28Isaiah 10:29
Ver. 29. Lodging. Here, say the Assyrians, we will encamp.
↑ 29Isaiah 10:31
Ver. 31. Take. Prot. "gather themselves to flee." H.
↑ 31Isaiah 10:32
Ver. 32. Nobe. He may arrive thither shortly, in the environs of Jerusalem. C. ---
Sept. "exhort to-day, that they may continue on the road. Comfort with the hand the daughter of Sion, thou rock and hills within Jerusalem." H. --- Hand.
As Nicanor did against the temple. 2 Mac. xv. 32.
C.
↑ 32Isaiah 10:33
Ver. 33. Vessel. Like Gideon, when he attacked Madian. v. 26. Judg. vii. 19.
Sept. "the nobles."
H. --- Heb. "their beauty." The empire of Assyria shall presently fall. C.
↑ 33License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses