The Collapse of the Assyrian Enterprise
Prof. S. R. Driver, D. D. Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame… Isaiah's genius supplies him with a splendid figure under which to depict the collapse of the Assyrian enterprise. The serried battalions of Assyria appear to his imagination as the trees of some huge forest, irresistible in their strength and countless in their number; but the Light of Israel kindles majestically into a flame; and at the end of a single day a child may count them. (Prof. S. R. Driver, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; WEB: The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.