Isaiah 10 · Verse 6

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 10:6, King James Version

Isaiah 10:6 in other translations

BSB	I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
WEB	I 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.
ASV	I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
YLT	Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.
DARBY	I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
BBE	I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Webster	I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

What does Isaiah 10:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. send him--"Kings' hearts are in the hand of the Lord" (Pr 21:1). hypocritical--polluted [Horsley]. nation--Judah, against whom Sennacherib was forming designs. of my wrath--objects of My wrath. give ... charge--(Jr 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 Is 10:12; Is 33:1; Zec 10:5). But see Is 37:26.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 10:5-19

See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride, thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of Providence. God designs to correct his people for their hypocrisy, and bring them nearer to him; but is that Sennacherib's design? No; he designs to gratify his own covetousness and ambition. The Assyrian boasts what great things he has done to other nations, by his own policy and…

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Isaiah 10:6 in the original Hebrew

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בְּג֤וֹיbe.Goyon a nationH1471

חָנֵף֙cha.NefgodlessH2611

אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֔נּוּ'a.shal.le.Che.nuI sent himH7971

וְעַל\־ve.'al-and onH5921

עַ֥ם'am[the] people ofH5971

עֶבְרָתִ֖י'ev.ra.Tiwrath myH5678

אֲצַוֶּ֑נּוּ'a.tzav.Ve.nuI commanded himH6680

לִשְׁלֹ֤לlish.Lolto plunderH7997

שָׁלָל֙sha.LalplunderH7998

וְלָבֹ֣זve.la.Vozand to take as spoilH962

בַּ֔זBazspoilH957

וּלְשׂוּמ֥וֹu.le.si.movand to make itH7760

מִרְמָ֖סmir.Masa trampling placeH4823

כְּחֹ֥מֶרke.Cho.merlike [the] mud ofH2563

חוּצֽוֹת\׃chu.Tzot[the] streetsH2351

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Cross references for Isaiah 10:6

Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:13-14
For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Isaiah 37:26-27
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Isaiah 19:17
And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
Zechariah 10:5
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Jeremiah 47:6-7
O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Micah 7:10
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isaiah 29:13
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

against.
9:17; 19:17; 29:13; 30:9-11; 33:14; Jer 3:10; 4:14; Mt 15:7
will I give.
13,14; 37:26,27; 41:25; 45:1-5; Jer 25:9; 34:22; 47:6,7
tread them. Heb. lay them a treading.
22:5; 63:3,6; 2Sa 22:43; Mic 7:10; Zec 10:5

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Context

Isaiah 10:5
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10:7
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

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Isaiah 10:6 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Mandaréle contra una gente fementida, y sobre el pueblo de mi ira le enviaré, para que quite despojos, y arrebate presa, y que lo ponga á ser hollado como lodo de las calles.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Je l’enverrai contre une nation profane; et je lui donnerai un mandat contre le peuple de ma fureur, pour le butiner et le piller, et pour le fouler aux pieds comme la boue des rues.
German Elberfelder 1871	Wider eine ruchlose Nation werde ich ihn senden und gegen das Volk meines Grimmes ihn entbieten, um Raub zu rauben und Beute zu erbeuten, und es der Zertretung hinzugeben gleich Straßenkot.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Ad gentem fallacem mittam eum, et contra populum furoris mei mandabo illi, ut auferat spolia, et diripiat prædam, et ponat illum in conculcationem quasi lutum platearum.