Isaiah 10:22

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
people	עַמְּךָ֤ 'a.me.Kha	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
sand	כְּח֣וֹל ke.Chol	H2344	sand (as round or whirling particles) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
sea	הַיָּ֔ם hai.Yam	H3220	a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
remnant	שְׁאָ֖ר she.'Ar	H7605	a remainder · noun, common masculine singular absolute
return	יָשׁ֣וּב ya.Shuv	H7725	to turn back (hence · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
consumption	כִּלָּי֥וֹן ki.la.Yon	H3631	pining · noun, common masculine singular absolute
decreed	חָר֖וּץ cha.Rutz	H2782	properly · verb, qal passive participle, masculine singular absolute
overflow	שׁוֹטֵ֥ף sho.Tef	H7857	to gush · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
righteousness	צְדָקָֽה tze.da.Kah	H6666	rightness (abstractly) · noun, common feminine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Romans 9:27-28 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Isaiah 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when the…
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to ceas…
Romans 11:5-6 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Revelation 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the n…
Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that b…
1 Kings 4:20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
Isaiah 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utt…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:20-23

The prophet had said (Isa 10:12) that the Lord would perform his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, by Sennacherib's invading the land. Now here we are told what that work should be, a twofold work: - I. The conversion of some, to whom this providence should be sanctified and yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness, though for the present it was not joyous, but grievous; these are but a remnant (Isa 10:22), the remnant of Israel (Isa 10:20), the remnant of Jacob (Isa 10:21), but a very few in comparison with the vast numbers of the people of Israel, who were as the sand of the sea. Note, Converting work is wrought but on a remnant, who are distinguished from the rest and set…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 10:22

yet--rather in the sense in which Paul quotes it (Rom 9:27), "Though Israel be now numerous as the sand, a remnant only of them shall return"--the great majority shall perish. The reason is added, Because "the consumption (fully completed destruction) is decreed (literally, decided on, brought to an issue), it overfloweth (Isa 30:28; Isa 8:8) with justice"; that is, the infliction of just punishment (Isa 5:16) [MAURER].

John Gill on Isaiah 10:22

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,.... These words are spoken either by the Lord to the prophet, calling Israel his people; or by the prophet to Hezekiah, as Jarchi and Kimchi think; or they may be rendered thus, "for though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea" (s); that is, innumerable, as was promised to Abraham, Genesis 22:17, yet a remnant of them shall return; or "be converted in it" (t), to the Messiah; or "be saved", as the apostle interprets it; see Gill on Romans 9:27; a remnant is a few, as Kimchi explains it, out of a great number: it signifies, that the majority of the Jewish nation should reject the Messiah, only a few of them should believe in…

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John Calvin on Isaiah 10:22

The Church Fathers

Through this Son of man, Christ Jesus, and from his remnant, that is, the apostles and the many others who from among the Israelites have believed in Christ as God, and with the increasing plenitude of the Gentiles, the holy vineyard is being completed.
— Augustine of Hippo, IN ANSWER TO THE JEWS 6

If it is of these the predestinated remnant, about whom another prophet has said, "The remnant shall be saved;" whence the apostle also says, "Even so then at this time also the remnant according to the election of grace is saved;" assuredly he believes in Christ; just as in the time of the apostle very many of that nation believed; nor are there now wanting those, although very few, who yet believe.
— Augustine of Hippo, City of God 17.5

If the chaff be condemned, let the wheat be gathered together. May the remnant be saved, as Isaiah saith, "And the remnant hath" clearly "been saved:" for out of them were the twelve Apostles, out of them more than five hundred brethren, to whom the Lord showed Himself after His Resurrection: out of their number were so many thousands baptized, who laid the price of their possessions at the Apostles' feet. Thus then was fulfilled the prayer here made to God: "For Thy servant David's sake, turn not away the presence of Thine Anointed."
— Augustine of Hippo, EXPLANATIONS OF THE PSALMS 132 (131): 10

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Dictionary and topics

Assyria — The name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the original capital of the country, was originally a colony from Babylonia, and was ruled by viceroys from that kingdom. It was a mountainous…
Assyria · Prophecies concerning — Prophecies concerning

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Isaiah 10:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:20-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 10:22

John Gill on Isaiah 10:22

John Calvin on Isaiah 10:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 10:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:20-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 10:22

John Gill on Isaiah 10:22

John Calvin on Isaiah 10:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 10:22-23

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 10:22

Rashi on Isaiah 10:22