Isaiah, Chapter 10:
Verses from Isaiah 10 from the book of Isaiah in the Bible.
1. Woe to those who enact unjust laws, and those who continually record unjust decisions!
2. To harm those in need of justice, and to steal the rights of the poor of my people, making widows their prey, and stealing from orphans!
3. And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the desolation that will come from afar? Who will you turn to for help? And where will they leave their glory?
4. Without me, they will bow among the prisoners and fall among the dead. Despite all this, his anger has not turned away, but his hand is still outstretched.
God's Judgment on Assyria
5. Woe to Assyria, the rod of my wrath! The team in their hand is my outrage.
6. I will send them against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath I will command them, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to trample their feet like the mud of the streets.
7. However, he does not think this way, nor does his heart imagine this way; but in his heart is to destroy, and to cut down many nations.
8. For he says, “Are not all my princes kings?
9. Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Harpad? And isn't 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 has accomplished all his work on 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 have I done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent; and I removed the boundaries of the people, and stole their treasures; and as a brave man I overthrew the inhabitants.
14 And my hand found the wealth of the peoples like a nest; and as abandoned eggs are gathered together, I have gathered together the whole earth; and there was no one who moved his wing, or opened his mouth, or cooed.”
15 Will the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or will the saw exalt itself against the one who moves it? As if the rod moves the one who lifts it, or the staff lifts the one who is not wood.
16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his strong ones; and under his glory there will be a burning like the burning of fire.
17 And the light of Israel will be for fire, and his Holy One for flame; and he will scorch and devour its thorns and its branches in one day.
18 And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fertile field, both soul and body; and they will be as when a sick man faints.
19 And the remains of the trees in his forest will be so few that a boy can count them.
The remnant of Israel
20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped from the house of Jacob, shall no more lean upon him that smote them; but they will truly lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. 21. The rest will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22. For even though your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea, a remnant of them will return; determined destruction will overflow into justice.
23. For a consummation, and which is determined, the Lord God of hosts will perform in the midst of all the earth.
24. Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: O my people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, when she smites you with her rod, and lifts up her staff against you in the manner of Egypt.
25. For it is yet a very little while, and my wrath and my wrath will cease from its consummation.
26. And the Lord of hosts will raise up a scourge against her, as was the slaughter of Midian on the rock of Oreb; and his rod shall be upon 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 will take away his burden from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the anointing.
28. He came to Aiath, passed through Migron; in Michmash he placed his utensils;
29. They passed the pass, and lodged in Geba; Ramah trembled, and Gibeah of Saul fled.
30. Shout aloud, O daughter of Galim! Make it heard, oh Laís! Answer, O Anathoth!
31. Madmena is gone; the residents of Gebim fled.
32. Today he 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 high trees will be cut down, and the high trees will be humbled.
34. And he will cut down the thickets of Lebanon with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Magnificent.
