Isaiah 10:16
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isaiah 10:16 belongs to a prophecy against Assyria. Its chapter is marked by strife, war, and wickedness, in contrast with the picture in Isaiah 11 of the peace and righteousness of Christ's kingdom. The wider passage of Isaiah 10:5-18 shows that a ruler's power and dominion come from God, so he is only an instrument in God's hands with no independent power, as illustrated by Nebuchadnezzar's great dominion though he ignored that truth.
The verse presents God's judgment on the proud oppressor as a fire that sends leanness among his fat ones and kindles a burning beneath his glory. It presents the wicked as perishable, with their destruction like combustible material consumed by fire rather than like something imperishable or enduring. That burning, devouring, consuming fire destroys the wicked totally, consuming both soul and body and not merely taking bodily life. This is destruction in hell, not eternal conscious suffering.
Its scene points beyond the destruction of Jerusalem to the future end of all things, with Jerusalem's fall as the type and the final destruction as the antitype. The reproofs of great sins in its section point forward to similar conditions in the last days and to the great deliverance at Christ's coming. The consuming judgment is synchronized with the consuming process represented by the worms in Isaiah 14, belongs to the destruction decreed in Isaiah 10:10-23, and is linked to the downfall of the Papal power in 1798 when the treading-under-foot indignation against God's people ended.