For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
For every battle of the warrior (is) with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but (this) shall be with burning (and) fuel of fire - or else, 'every greave х cª'own (H5430)] of (the warrior who is) armed with greaves in [bª-] the din of battle, and the martial garment (or cloak, called "sagum" by the Latins) rolled in [bª-] blood, shall be for lª- burning, (and) fuel for fire' (Hengstenberg). All warlike accoutrements shall be destroyed, as no longer required in the new era of peace (Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 11:6-7; Psalms 46:9; Ezekiel 39:9; Micah 5:5; Micah 5:10; Zechariah 9:9-10). But Calvin and Grotius support the English version, which the context's reference to Midian favours. Isaiah contrasts the victory which God will give Israel with all human victories. Theirs are with confused din and bloodshed; but this of the Lord shah be, as in the victory over Midian, with His own hand alone, and by 'burning fire' from heaven. So Isaiah 10:16; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8, "the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God," etc. So the Assyrian type of Antichrist was not destroyed by human battle and bloodshed, but by divine interposition. (Isaiah 37:36: cf. Isaiah 30:30-33). Compare Malachi 4:1 as to the burning up of the wicked.