Isaiah 10:33,34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord of hosts shall lop the bough The top bough, Sennacherib; with terror Hebrew, במערצה bemagnaratza, with a dreadful crash, as Bishop Lowth renders it, expressed by the very sound of the Hebrew word; by a most terrible and unexpected blow; and the high ones, &c. The lofty boughs, Hebrew, ורמי הקומה excelsi statura, the high of stature: that is, his valiant soldiers, or the great commanders of his army, compared to the tall trees of a forest; shall be hewn down By a sudden and irresistible stroke; and the haughty The proud, self- confident boasters, elati animo, the high-minded, as חגבהים signifies; shall be humbled Shall be laid motionless in the dust, namely, by the invisible power of the destroying angel. And he shall cut down the thickets, &c., with iron Or, as with iron, as the trees of the forest are cut down with instruments of iron; and Lebanon Or, his Lebanon, the Assyrian army, which being before compared to a forest, and being called his Carmel in the Hebrew text, (Isaiah 10:18,) may very fitly, upon the same ground, be called his Lebanon here. Shall fall by a mighty one By a mighty angel, Isaiah 37:36.