And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
The remnant of Israel ... shall no more again stay upon him that smote them ... The effect on the "remnant" (contrasted with the Assyrian remnant, Isaiah 10:19) - namely, those who shall be left after the invasion of Sennacherib-will be a return from dependence on external idolatrous nations, as Assyria and Egypt (2 Kings 18:1-37; 2 Kings 19:1-37; 2 Kings 20:1-21; 2 Kings 21:1-26; 2 Kings 16:7-9), to the God of the theocracy; fulfilled in part in the pious Hezekiah's days; but from the future aspect under which Paul, in Romans 9:27-28 (cf. "short work" with "whole work," Isaiah 10:12 here) regards the whole prophecy, the "remnant" "who stay upon the Lord" probably will receive its fullest realization in the portion of Jews left after that Antichrist shall have been overthrown, who shall "return" unto the Lord (Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 7:3; Zechariah 12:9-10; Zechariah 14:2-3; Zephaniah 3:12).