Text -- Isaiah 10:6 (NET)

10:6 I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 10:6

¹ sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).

² tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”

³ tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”

⁴ tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”