Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 30:32

32. And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall Iay upon him , it shall be with tabrets and harps : and in battles of shaking will he fight with it .

Heb▪ the founded rod, the Judgment of God, which is frequently called a Rod in Scripture, and may be here called a founded Rod, or the Rod of Foundation; either because it was firmly established, and certainly to come by God's immutable Purpose and Appointment: or because the Rod should not slightly touch him, and pass over him, but strike deep, and be fixed; and as it were grounded or founded in his Flesh; and made to rest upon him, as it follows in the next Clause.

Upon the Assyrian, mentioned in the foregoing Verse.

The Sence is, Either 1. their Destruction shall be Celebrated, by God's People, with joy and musick, and songs of Praise, Or 2. the Victory shall be got, not by warlike Instruments and Atchievements, but as it were by Tabrets and Harps. Wherein He may possibly allude to the Victory which Iehoshaphat got against Moab and Ammon, not by fighting, but onely by singing, and praising God with the Voice, and with musical Instruments, 2 Chron. 20. 19, 21, 27, 28. God being pleased to Fight for them, by his own immediate Power; which also was the case here, which made the People of God sing a Triumph before the Fight, Isa. 37. 22.

Or, with battles or fightings of shaking, to wit, of shaking of the hand, of which kind of Shaking this Hebrew word is constantly used, such as are performed by the meer shaking of the hand; namely, by God's shaking His Hand against them, as He threatens to do against others, Isa. 11. 15. and 19. 16. in which last place this very word is used; and in the former, the Verb from whence it comes. For that this Shaking is an Act of God, seems more than probable, and from the following words, Will be, i. e. God, as all understand it, fight against it. And so the Sence of the place may be this, God will Fight against them, and destroy them by His own Hands,

To wit, the Lord, who declareth himself to be the Enemy of the Assyrian, both in the foregoing and following Verses.

With the Army of the Assyrians: Or, according to the other Hebrew reading, with them, with the Assyrians.

Heb. shall cause to rest; which is contrary to the manner of God's dealing with His People, upon whom He will Not suffer the rod of the wicked to rest, Psal. 125. 3.

Marginal references: Heb. every passing of the rod founded.; Heb. cause to rest upon him.; Or, against them