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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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/isaiah/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What sorrow awaits the unjust judges</p><p class="line2">and those who issue unfair laws.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They deprive the poor of justice</p><p class="line2">and deny the rights of the needy among my people.</p><p class="line1">They prey on widows</p><p class="line2">and take advantage of orphans.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>What will you do when I punish you,</p><p class="line2">when I send disaster upon you from a distant land?</p><p class="line1">To whom will you turn for help?</p><p class="line2">Where will your treasures be safe?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You will stumble along as prisoners</p><p class="line2">or lie among the dead.</p><p class="line1">But even then the LORD’s anger will not be satisfied.</p><p class="line2">His fist is still poised to strike.</p><p class="hdg">Judgment against Assyria</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger.</p><p class="line2">I use it as a club to express my anger.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I am sending Assyria against a godless nation,</p><p class="line2">against a people with whom I am angry.</p><p class="line1">Assyria will plunder them,</p><p class="line2">trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool;</p><p class="line2">his mind does not work that way.</p><p class="line1">His plan is simply to destroy,</p><p class="line2">to cut down nation after nation.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He will say,</p><p class="line2">‘Each of my princes will soon be a king.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish.</p><p class="line2">Hamath fell before us as Arpad did.</p><p class="line2">And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom</p><p class="line2">whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So we will defeat Jerusalem and her gods,</p><p class="line2">just as we destroyed Samaria with hers.’”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him—for he is proud and arrogant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He boasts, </p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“By my own powerful arm I have done this.</p><p class="line2">With my own shrewd wisdom I planned it.</p><p class="line1">I have broken down the defenses of nations</p><p class="line2">and carried off their treasures.</p><p class="line2">I have knocked down their kings like a bull.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I have robbed their nests of riches</p><p class="line2">and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers eggs.</p><p class="line1">No one can even flap a wing against me</p><p class="line2">or utter a peep of protest.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it?</p><p class="line2">Is the saw greater than the person who saws?</p><p class="line1">Can a rod strike unless a hand moves it?</p><p class="line2">Can a wooden cane walk by itself?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line2">will send a plague among Assyria’s proud troops,</p><p class="line2">and a flaming fire will consume its glory.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The LORD, the Light of Israel, will be a fire;</p><p class="line2">the Holy One will be a flame.</p><p class="line1">He will devour the thorns and briers with fire,</p><p class="line2">burning up the enemy in a single night.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The LORD will consume Assyria’s glory</p><p class="line2">like a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land;</p><p class="line2">it will waste away like sick people in a plague.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Of all that glorious forest, only a few trees will survive—</p><p class="line2">so few that a child could count them!</p><p class="hdg">Hope for the LORD’s People</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In that day the remnant left in Israel,</p><p class="line2">the survivors in the house of Jacob,</p><p class="line1">will no longer depend on allies</p><p class="line2">who seek to destroy them.</p><p class="line1">But they will faithfully trust the LORD,</p><p class="line2">the Holy One of Israel.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A remnant will return;<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">yes, the remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But though the people of Israel are as numerous</p><p class="line2">as the sand of the seashore,</p><p class="line1">only a remnant of them will return.</p><p class="line2">The LORD has rightly decided to destroy his people.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Yes, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line2">has already decided to destroy the entire land.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So this is what the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, says: “O my people in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they oppress you with rod and club as the Egyptians did long ago. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In a little while my anger against you will end, and then my anger will rise up to destroy them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The LORD of Heaven’s Armies will lash them with his whip, as he did when Gideon triumphed over the Midianites at the rock of Oreb, or when the LORD’s staff was raised to drown the Egyptian army in the sea.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>In that day the LORD will end the bondage of his people.</p><p class="line2">He will break the yoke of slavery</p><p class="line2">and lift it from their shoulders.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Look, the Assyrians are now at Aiath.</p><p class="line2">They are passing through Migron</p><p class="line2">and are storing their equipment at Micmash.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They are crossing the pass</p><p class="line2">and are camping at Geba.</p><p class="line1">Fear strikes the town of Ramah.</p><p class="line2">All the people of Gibeah, the hometown of Saul,</p><p class="line2">are running for their lives.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Scream in terror,</p><p class="line2">you people of Gallim!</p><p class="line1">Shout out a warning to Laishah.</p><p class="line2">Oh, poor Anathoth!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>There go the people of Madmenah, all fleeing.</p><p class="line2">The citizens of Gebim are trying to hide.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day.</p><p class="line2">He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>But look! The Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line2">will chop down the mighty tree of Assyria with great power!</p><p class="line1">He will cut down the proud.</p><p class="line2">That lofty tree will be brought down.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He will cut down the forest trees with an ax.</p><p class="line2">Lebanon will fall to the Mighty One.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Shear-jashub;</span><span class="ft"> see 7:3; 8:18.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:22-23 </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="it">only a remnant of them will be saved. / For he will carry out his sentence quickly and with finality and righteousness; / for God will carry out his sentence upon all the world with finality.</span><span class="ft"> Compare Rom 9:27-28.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:27 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">The yoke will be broken, / for you have grown so fat.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:34 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">with an ax / as even the mighty trees of Lebanon fall.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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