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Woeהוֹיto Assyria,אַשּׁוּרthe rodשֵׁבֶטof my anger!אַפִּיAnd the staffוּמַטֶּהin their handבְיָדָםisהוּאmy indignation.זַעְמִי
Isaiah 10:5
Study it in the app“Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger! And the staff in their hand is my indignation.”
God uses Assyria as a rod, but Assyria does not see it that wayProvidence
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 10:5, word by word
- Woeהוֹיhoy
woe
A cry of grief for the dead or a warning of disaster.
Where else “hoy” appears- to Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- the rodשֵׁבֶטshevet
rod
A stick for guiding or correcting; the king's sign of power.
Where else “shevet” appears- of my angerאַפִּapi
anger
The rage of one who snorts; the "long of nose" is slow to become angry.
Where else “api” appears- And the staffמַטֶּהmate
staff
A straight stick used for support, as a weapon or as a sign of authority.
Where else “mate” appears- in their handיָדָyada
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yada” appears- my indignationזַעְמִzami
indignation, fury
Indignation: fury, especially God's anger at evil.
Where else “zami” appears
Places in this verse
Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
The context
4Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners, and among the slain they will fall. For all this his anger has not turned back, and his hand is still stretched out.
5 · This verse (above)
6Against a godless nation I send it, and against the people of my fury I command it, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to make it a thing trampled like the mud of the streets.