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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 10 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Isaiah 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/9.htm" title="Isaiah 9">◄</a> Isaiah 10 <a href="../isaiah/11.htm" title="Isaiah 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.1" class="v23_10_1">1</span>You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people. </span><span class="v23_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.2" class="v23_10_2">2</span>That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans. </span><span class="v23_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.3" class="v23_10_3">3</span>What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth? </span><span class="v23_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.4" class="v23_10_4">4</span>You will be killed in battle or dragged off as prisoners. Yet even so the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s anger will not be ended; his hand will still be stretched out to punish.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Emperor of Assyria as the Instrument of God</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.5" class="v23_10_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.10.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry. </span><span class="v23_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.6" class="v23_10_6">6</span>I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.7" class="v23_10_7">7</span>But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations. </span><span class="v23_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.8" class="v23_10_8">8</span>He boasts, “Every one of my commanders is a king! </span><span class="v23_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.9" class="v23_10_9">9</span>I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus. </span><span class="v23_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.10" class="v23_10_10">10</span>I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria. </span><span class="v23_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.11" class="v23_10_11">11</span>I have destroyed Samaria and all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalem and the images that are worshiped there.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.12" class="v23_10_12">12</span>But the Lord says, “When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.13" class="v23_10_13">13</span>The emperor of Assyria boasts, “I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there. </span><span class="v23_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.14" class="v23_10_14">14</span>The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.15" class="v23_10_15">15</span>But the <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “Can an ax claim to be greater than the one who uses it? Is a saw more important than the one who saws with it? A club doesn't lift up a person; a person lifts up a club.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.16" class="v23_10_16">16</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty is going to send disease to punish those who are now well-fed. In their bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns. </span><span class="v23_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.17" class="v23_10_17">17</span>God, the light of Israel, will become a fire. Israel's holy God will become a flame, which in a single day will burn up everything, even the thorns and thistles. </span><span class="v23_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.18" class="v23_10_18">18</span>The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone. </span><span class="v23_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.19" class="v23_10_19">19</span>There will be so few trees left that even a child will be able to count them.</span></p><h3 class="s">A Few Will Come Back</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.20" class="v23_10_20">20</span>A time is coming when the people of Israel who have survived will not rely any more on the nation that almost destroyed them. They will truly put their trust in the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, Israel's holy God. </span><span class="v23_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.21" class="v23_10_21">21</span>A few of the people of Israel will come back to their mighty God. </span><span class="v23_10_22"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.22" class="v23_10_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.10.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Even though now there are as many people of Israel as there are grains of sand by the sea, only a few will come back. Destruction is in store for the people, and it is fully deserved. </span><span class="v23_10_23"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.23" class="v23_10_23">23</span>Yes, throughout the whole country the Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty will bring destruction, as he said he would.</span></p><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Will Punish Assyria</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_24"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.24" class="v23_10_24">24</span>The Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty says to his people who live in Zion, “Do not be afraid of the Assyrians, even though they oppress you as the Egyptians used to do. </span><span class="v23_10_25"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.25" class="v23_10_25">25</span>In only a little while I will finish punishing you, and then I will destroy them. </span><span class="v23_10_26"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.26" class="v23_10_26">26</span>I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty, will beat them with my whip as I did the people of Midian at Oreb Rock. I will punish Assyria as I punished Egypt. </span><span class="v23_10_27"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.27" class="v23_10_27">27</span>When that time comes, I will free you from the power of Assyria, and their yoke will no longer be a burden on your shoulders.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.10.27!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s">The Invader Attacks</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_28"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.28" class="v23_10_28">28</span>The enemy army has captured the city of Ai!<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.10.28!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> They have passed through Migron! They left their supplies at Michmash! </span><span class="v23_10_29"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.29" class="v23_10_29">29</span>They have crossed the pass and are spending the night at Geba! The people in the town of Ramah are terrified, and the people in King Saul's hometown of Gibeah have run away. </span><span class="v23_10_30"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.30" class="v23_10_30">30</span>Shout, people of Gallim! Listen, people of Laishah! Answer, people of Anathoth! </span><span class="v23_10_31"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.31" class="v23_10_31">31</span>The people of Madmenah and Gebim are running for their lives. </span><span class="v23_10_32"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.32" class="v23_10_32">32</span>Today the enemy are in the town of Nob, and there they are shaking their fists at Mount Zion, at the city of Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_10_33"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.33" class="v23_10_33">33</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty will bring them crashing down like branches cut off a tree. The proudest and highest of them will be cut down and humiliated. </span><span class="v23_10_34"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.10.34" class="v23_10_34">34</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will cut them down as trees in the heart of the forest are cut down with an ax, as even the finest trees of Lebanon fall!</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.27: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew has three additional words, the meaning of which is unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.28: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ai: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This and the other places mentioned in verses 28-32 were located near Jerusalem, along the way by which an invader would come to attack from the north.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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