Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Without me - Not having me to 'flee to' (Isaiah 10:3).
They shall bow down - bereft of strength, they shall fall; or else, they shall lie down fettered.
Under the prisoners ... under the slain - rather, among (literally, in the place of) (Horsley). The "under" х tachat (H8478)] may be, however, explained in the ordinary sense, 'trodden under the (feet of the) prisoners going into captivity,' and 'overwhelmed under the heaps of slain on the battlefield.' Compare Isaiah 10:6, end: Isaiah 14:19, "as ... those that are slain, as a carcass trodden under feet." Isaiah 10:9; Isaiah 10:11 show that Samaria was destroyed before this prophecy. It was written when Assyria proposed (a design which it soon after tried to carry out under Sennacherib) to destroy Judah and Jerusalem, as it had destroyed Samaria. This is the first part of Isaiah's prophecies under Hezekiah. Probably between 722 and 715 B.C. (see Isaiah 10:27.)