Isaiah 30:28
28. (Isa 11:4; 2Th 2:8).
reach . . . neck—the most extreme danger; yet as the head, or capital of Judah, was to be spared (Isa 8:8), so the head, or sovereign of Assyria, Sennacherib, should escape. sieve of vanity—Rather, "the winnowing fan of destruction" [LOWTH] (Isa 41:16). bridle in . . . jaws—as prisoners are represented in the Assyrian inscriptions (Isa 37:29). causing . . . to err— (Isa 63:17). "People," Hebrew, "peoples," namely, the various races composing the Assyrian armies (Isa 5:26).
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