Isaiah 10:6 - Exposition

I will send him against an hypocritical nation ; or, against a corrupt nation . Israel in the wider sense, inclusive of Judah, seems to be intended. The people of my wrath ; i.e. "the people who are the object of my wrath." Will I give him a charge . In 2 Kings 18:25 Sennacherib nays, "Am I come up without the Lord (Jehovah) against thin, lace, to destroy it? The Lord (Jehovah) said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it" (compare below, Isaiah 36:10 ). It has been usual to consider Sennacherib's words a vain boast; but if God instructed Nebuchadnezzar through dreams, may he not also by the same means have "given charges" to Assyrian monarchs? To take the spoil, and to take the prey ; rather, to gather spoil , and seize prey . The terms used carry the thoughts back to Isaiah 8:1-4 , and to the symbolic name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz. And to tread them down ; literally, to make it a trampling . "It" refers to "nation" in the first clause.