Scourge for him] i.e. for the Assyrian. According to] RV 'as in.' The slaughter of Midian is also referred to as a typical deliverance in Isaiah 9:4. His rod] i.e. Jehovah's, contrasted with the Assyrian oppressor's rod (Isaiah 10:24). As the Egyptian oppression was followed by the exodus, so the Assyrian oppression is to be succeeded by a similarly striking deliverance.

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