Isaiah 10:23

"For 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."

Key Reflection

This verse contrasts the vastness of God's chosen people with the small number who will ultimately be faithful and return. The destruction foretold is not arbitrary but brings about divine righteousness, ensuring that those who remain true to God are saved.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For the Lord God of hosts -Note,Isaiah 1:9. Shall make a consumption -The Hebrew of this verse might be rendered, ‘for its destruction is completed, and is determined on; the Lord Yahweh of hosts will execute it in the midst of the land.’ Our translation, however, expresses the force of the original. It means that the destruction was fixed in the mind or purpose of God, and would be certainly executed. The translation by the Septuagint, which is followed in the main by the apostle Paul in quoting this passage, is somewhat different.

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