Isaiah 10:20-23
Judgment refines God’s people so that a faithful remnant returns in authentic trust.
20 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.
Judgment refines God’s people so that a faithful remnant returns in authentic trust.
To promise that a purified remnant of Israel will return to the LORD in genuine dependence after the Assyrian crisis.
Following Assyria's campaigns against Israel and Judah, only a small portion of the population would survive the devastation.
Woe to Unjust Decrees, Assyria the Rod, and the Return of the Remnant
Isaiah 10 declares that the LORD judges unjust rulers, uses Assyria as the rod of his anger, punishes Assyria’s arrogance, preserves a remnant who return to him, and cuts down every proud power that exalts itself.