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To whom will you flee for assistance? And where will you leave behind your own glory,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>so that you may not be bowed down under the chains, and fall with the slain? Concerning all this, his fury was not turned away; instead, his hand was still extended.<p> <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on Assyria<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Woe to Assur! He is the rod and the staff of my fury, and my indignation is in their hands.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will order him against the people of my fury, so that he may take away the plunder, and tear apart the prey, and place it to be trampled like the mud of the streets.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But he will not consider it to be so, and his heart will not suppose it to be this way. Instead, his heart will be set to crush and to exterminate more than a few nations.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For he will say:<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Are not my princes like many kings? Is not Calno like Carchemish, and Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In the same manner as my hand reached the kingdoms of the idol, so also will it reach their false images, those of Jerusalem and of Samaria.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Should I not do to Jerusalem and her false images, just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?”<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And this shall be: when the Lord will have completed each of his works on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will act against the fruit of the exalted heart of king Assur, and against the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For he has said: “I have acted with the strength of my own hand, and I have understood with my own wisdom, and I have removed the limits of the people, and I have plundered their leaders, and, like one with power, I have pulled down those residing on high.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And my hand has reached to the strength of the people, as to a nest. And, just as the eggs which have been left behind are gathered, so have I gathered the entire earth. And there was no one who moved a wing, or opened a mouth, or uttered a snarl.”<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Should the axe glorify itself over him who wields it? Or can the saw exalt itself over him who pulls it? How can a rod lift itself up against him who wields it, or a staff exalt itself, though it is only wood?<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Because of this, the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his fat ones. And under the influence of his glory, a burning ardor will rage, like a consuming fire.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the light of Israel will be like a fire, and the Holy One of Israel will be like a flame. And his thorns and briers will be set ablaze and devoured, in one day.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the glory of his forest and of his beautiful hill will be consumed, from the soul even to the flesh. And he will flee away in terror.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And what remains of the trees of his forest will be so few, and so easily numbered, that even a child could write them down.<p> <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">A Remnant Shall Return<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And this shall be in that day: those not added to the remnant of Israel, and those who escape of the house of Jacob, will not lean upon him who strikes them. Instead, they will lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The remnant of Jacob, again I say the remnant, will be converted to the mighty God.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For though your people, O Israel, will be like the sand of the sea, yet only a remnant of them will be converted. The consummation, having been shortened, will be inundated with justice.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the Lord, the God of hosts, will accomplish an abbreviation and a consummation, in the midst of all the earth.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For this reason, the Lord, the God of hosts, says this: “My people, who inhabit Zion: do not be afraid of Assur. He will strike you with his rod, and he will lift up his staff over you, on the way of Egypt. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But after a little while and a brief time, my indignation will be consumed, and my fury will turn to their wickedness.” <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the Lord of hosts will raise up a scourge over him, like the scourge of Midian at the rock of Oreb, and he will raise up his rod over the sea, and he will lift it up against the way of Egypt. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And this shall be in that day: his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke will be taken away from your neck, and the yoke will decay at the appearance of the oil.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He will approach Aiath; he will cross into Migron; he will entrust his vessels to Michmash.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They have passed through in haste; Geba is our seat; Ramah was stupefied; Gibeah of Saul fled.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Neigh with your voice, daughter of Gallim; pay attention, Laishah, impoverished woman of Anathoth.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Madmenah has moved away; be strengthened, you inhabitants of Gebim.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>It is still daylight, so stand at Nob. He will shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Behold, the sovereign Lord of hosts will crush the little bottle of wine with terror, and the exalted in stature will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And the dense forest will be overturned with iron. And Lebanon, with its exalted ones, will fall.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>