Isaiah 6:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But yet in it shall be a tenth A small remnant reserved, that number being put indefinitely. And it shall return Out of the Babylonish captivity, into their own land. And shall be eaten Or, shall be for a prey, as Dr. Waterland translates it: that is, that remnant shall be devoured a second time by the kings of Syria, and afterward by the Romans. Yet as a teil-tree, and as an oak, &c. Yet there shall be another remnant, not such a one as that which came out of Babylon, but a holy seed, who shall afterward look upon him whom they have pierced, and mourn over him. Whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves, &c. Who, when their leaves are cast in winter, have a substance within themselves, a vital principle, which preserves life in the root of the tree, and in due time sends it forth into all the branches. So the holy seed shall be the substance, or, rather, the support thereof Of the people, who, were it not for the sake of these, should be finally rooted out and destroyed.