Isaiah 10:24,25 - Very soon my anger against you will end

10:24

The Lord now speaks to His people in a more tender manner, but not as tender as modern ears would like! He refers to them as “my people”, so God has not rejected them. He talks about them dwelling in Zion, so Zion is still there home in God’s eyes.  Then He tells them not to be afraid of Assyria. Next God speaks about the violence that Assyria has done against them, and likens this to what happened in Egypt. So there thinking would turn to the deliverance from Egypt, and so perhaps anticipate deliverance from the hands of the Assyrians.

10:25

The previous verse was music to our modern ears like all this, but then comes the words “very soon my anger against you will end”. We don’t like the idea of God being angry with us, for we think that of God is angry with us that means He cannot love us, He hates us! God is angry with us when we sin. He is angry because He knows what sin is, what it does to us, and what our sin does to others. But He acts to set us free from sin. We see the same phenomenon with all the talk today about “hate crimes”. The world cannot understand that when we say Islam is not the way to God that that does not mean we hate Muslims. If we say homosexuality is wrong that is not the same as hating people who identify as being gay. It means that we believe these things are wrong and harmful, but that there is also a far better way, and a way that is open to all people.