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unjust statutes <p class="indent2"> and issue oppressive decrees, <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>to deprive the poor of fair treatment <p class="indent2"> and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, <p class="indent1"> to make widows their prey <p class="indent2"> and orphans their plunder. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>What will you do on the day of reckoning <p class="indent2"> when devastation comes from afar? <p class="indent1"> To whom will you flee for help? <p class="indent2"> Where will you leave your wealth? <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives <p class="indent2"> or fall among the slain. <p class="indent1stline"> Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; <p class="indent2"> His hand is still upraised. <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on Assyria<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; <p class="indent2"> the staff in their hands is My wrath. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will send him against a godless nation; <p class="indent2"> I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, <p class="indent1"> to take spoils and seize plunder, <p class="indent2"> and to trample them down like clay in the streets. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But this is not his intention; <p class="indent2"> this is not his plan. <p class="indent1"> For it is in his heart to destroy <p class="indent2"> and cut off many nations. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent2"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Is not Calno like Carchemish? <p class="indent1"> Is not Hamath like Arpad? <p class="indent2"> Is not Samaria like Damascus? <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms <p class="indent2"> whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria, <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, <p class="indent2"> will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For he says: <p class="indent1stline">‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, <p class="indent2"> and by my wisdom, for I am clever. <p class="indent1"> I have removed the boundaries of nations <p class="indent2"> and plundered their treasures; <p class="indent2"> like a mighty one I subdued their rulers. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My hand reached as into a nest <p class="indent2"> to seize the wealth of the nations. <p class="indent1"> Like one gathering abandoned eggs, <p class="indent2"> I gathered all the earth. <p class="indent1"> No wing fluttered, <p class="indent2"> no beak opened or chirped.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? <p class="indent2"> Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? <p class="indent1"> It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, <p class="indent2"> or a staff lifting him who is not wood! <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease <p class="indent2"> among Assyria’s stout warriors, <p class="indent1"> and under his pomp will be kindled <p class="indent2"> a fire like a burning flame. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the Light of Israel will become a fire, <p class="indent2"> and its Holy One a flame. <p class="indent1"> In a single day it will burn and devour <p class="indent2"> Assyria’s thorns and thistles. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The splendor of its forests and orchards, <p class="indent2"> both soul and body, <p class="indent1"> it will completely destroy, <p class="indent2"> as a sickness consumes a man. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The remaining trees of its forests will be so few <p class="indent2"> that a child could count them. <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">A Remnant Shall Return<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>On that day the remnant of Israel <p class="indent2"> and the survivors of the house of Jacob <p class="indent1"> will no longer depend <p class="indent2"> on him who struck them, <p class="indent1"> but they will truly rely on the LORD, <p class="indent2"> the Holy One of Israel. <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A remnant will return<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> —a remnant of Jacob—<p class="indent2"> to the Mighty God. <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, <p class="indent2"> only a remnant will return.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent1"> Destruction has been decreed, <p class="indent2"> overflowing with righteousness. <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out <p class="indent2"> the destruction decreed upon the whole land.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: <p class="indent1stline">“O My people who dwell in Zion, <p class="indent2"> do not fear Assyria, <p class="indent1"> who strikes you with a rod <p class="indent2"> and lifts his staff against you <p class="indent2"> as the Egyptians did. <A name="26"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For in just a little while <p class="indent2"> My fury against you will subside, <p class="indent2"> and My anger will turn to their destruction.” <A name="27"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, <p class="indent2"> as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. <p class="indent1"> He will raise His staff over the sea, <p class="indent2"> as He did in Egypt. <A name="28"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, <p class="indent2"> and the yoke from your neck. <p class="indent1"> The yoke will be broken <p class="indent2"> because your neck will be too large.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="29"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Assyria has entered Aiath <p class="indent2"> and passed through Migron, <p class="indent2"> storing their supplies at Michmash. <A name="30"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They have crossed at the ford: <p class="indent2">“We will spend the night at Geba.” <p class="indent1"> Ramah trembles; <p class="indent2"> Gibeah of Saul flees. <A name="31"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! <p class="indent2"> Listen, O Laishah! <p class="indent2"> O wretched Anathoth! <A name="32"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Madmenah flees; <p class="indent2"> the people of Gebim take refuge. <A name="33"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Yet today they will halt at Nob, <p class="indent2"> shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, <p class="indent2"> at the hill of Jerusalem. <A name="34"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts <p class="indent2"> will lop off the branches with terrifying power. <p class="indent1"> The tall trees will be cut down, <p class="indent2"> the lofty ones will be felled. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, <p class="indent2"> and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>Shear-jashub</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 22; see <a href="../isaiah/7.htm#3">Isaiah 7:3</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> LXX <i>Though the people of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved.</i><span class="thin"> </span> Cited in <a href="../romans/9.htm#27">Romans 9:27</a><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> LXX <i>He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work in all the world.</i><span class="thin"> </span> Cited in <a href="../romans/9.htm#28">Romans 9:28</a><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Literally <i>broken because of fatness</i><span class="thin"> </span>; LXX <i>broken from your shoulders</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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