Isaiah, Chapter 10:
Verses from Isaiah 10 from the Book of Isaiah in the Bible.
1. Woe to those who enact unjust laws, and to those who continually record unjust decisions!
2. To harm those in need of justice, and to rob the rights of the poor of my people, making widows their prey, and robbing orphans!
3. And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the desolation that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will they leave their glory?
4. Without me they will bow among the prisoners and fall among the slain. Despite all this, his anger has not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
God's judgment on Assyria
5. Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger! The team in their hand is my indignation.
6. I will send them against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath I will give them orders, to take away the spoil, and to take the booty, and to trample them underfoot, like the mire of the streets.
7. Yet he does not think so, nor does his heart imagine so; but in his heart is to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
8. For he says, “Are not all my princes kings?
9. Is not Calnus like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? And is not Samaria like Damascus?
10. As my hand found the kingdoms of idols, whose images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
11. Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I did to Samaria and her idols?”
12. Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have wrought all his work in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, that I will visit the fruit of the arrogance of the heart of the king of Assyria, and the brightness of his haughty eyes. 13 For he says: “By the strength of my hand I did it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent; and I removed the boundaries of the peoples, and robbed their treasures; and like a valiant man I overthrew the inhabitants.
14 And my hand found the wealth of the people like a nest; and as abandoned eggs are gathered, I gathered the whole earth; and there was no one moving the wing or opening the mouth or cooing.”
15 Can an ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or will the saw be exalted against him who moves it? As if the rod moved the one who lifts it, or the staff lifted the one who is not wood.
16 Therefore the LORD, the LORD of hosts, will send thinness among his mighty ones; and under his glory shall burn like the burn of fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be like fire, and his Holy One like a flame; and it will burn and devour its thorns and its branches in one day.
18 And he shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fertile field, both soul and body; and they will be as when the sick man faints.
19 And the remains of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can count them.
The remnant of Israel
20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and those that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall never again lean upon him that smote them; rather they will truly lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. 21. The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22. For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall return; determined destruction will overflow into justice.
23. For a consummation, and which is determined, the Lord God of hosts will make in the midst of all the earth.
24. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts: O my people, which dwell in Zion, fear not Assyria, when he smites thee with the rod, and lifts up his staff against thee after the manner of Egypt.
25. For yet too little, and my anger and my fury will cease at its consummation.
26. And the LORD of hosts will stir up a scourge against her, as was the slaying of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod shall be over the sea, and he shall lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27. And it shall come to pass in that day, that he shall lift his burden from thy shoulder, and his yoke from thy neck; and the yoke will be undone because of the anointing.
28. He came to Aiath, he passed through Migrom; in Michmash he placed his utensils;
29. They passed the pass, and lodged in Geba; Ramah trembled, and Gibeah from Saul fled.
30. Shout aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Make it heard, oh Laís! Answer, O Anathoth!
31. Madmena is gone; the inhabitants of Gebim fled.
32. Even today it will stop at Nob; he will shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33. Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will cut down the branches with a great noise, and the tall trees will be cut down, and the tall ones will be humbled.
34. And he will cut down the thickets of Lebanon with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Great One.
