I will send him, not by express commission, but by the secret yet powerful conduct of my providence, giving him both occasion and inclination to this expedition. Hypocritical: See Poole "Isa_9:17".
The people of my wrath; the objects of my just wrath, devoted to destruction.
Give him a charge, by putting this instinct into his mind.
To tread them down like the mire of the streets; which signifies that he should easily conquer them, and utterly destroy them, as he did after this time.