Isaiah 10:4

Without me … slain This clause is very difficult. The easiest explanation perhaps is to take it as the answer to the questions of Isaiah 10:3: ( they can do nothing) except crouch under the captives and fall under the slain. Another is "Except one (here and there) crouch among captives, they must fell under the slain." Objections to both occur readily enough to anyone who reads the Hebrew, especially the abrupt changes from singular to plural. An ingenious conjecture of Lagarde's gives the sense "Beltis crouches, Osiris is broken (חַת אֹסִיר כֵּלְתִּי כֹּרַעַת cf. Isaiah 46:1; Jeremiah 50:2), they fall, &c."; i.e. the heathen gods shall be unable to give protection to their votaries. But there is no evidence that Egyptiandeities (Osiris) were worshipped in Israel in Isaiah's time; and in any case their sudden introduction here would be surprising.

his hand is stretched out still See on ch. Isaiah 5:25 ff.