Isaiah 10:12

The verse seems to interrupt what might well have been a single speech of the Assyrian King, by a threat of the doom reserved for him. The arrogant assumption that Jehovah is a mere tribal deity, who is defeated when His images are overthrown, rouses the prophet to this indignant outburst.

when the Lord hath performed completed, lit. "cut off." The figure is taken from the cutting off of the finished web from the loom. See ch. Isaiah 38:12; also Zechariah 4:9.

his whole work] The work of chastisement and purification, to be executed on mount Zion and on Jerusalem.

the fruit of the stout heart(lit. "fruit of the pride of heart," see ch. Isaiah 9:9) of the king of Assyria The "fruit" is the outcome of his pride in such language as Isaiah 10:8; Isaiah 10:13f.