I will send him, not by express commission, but by the secret yet powerful conduct of my providence, giving him both occasion and inclination to this expedition. Hypocritical: See Poole on "Isaiah 9:17". The people of my wrath; the objects of my just wrath, devoted to destruction. Give him a charge, by putting this instinct into his mind. To tread them down like the mire of the streets; which signifies that he should easily conquer them, and utterly destroy them, as he did after this time.
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Isaiah 10:6
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.