Isaiah
10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed;
10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from
the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may
rob the fatherless!
10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation
which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will
ye leave your glory?
10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation.
10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people
of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the
prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in
his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as
Damascus?
10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images
did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to
Jerusalem and her idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his
whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of
the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my
wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people,
and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants
like a valiant man:
10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one
gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there
was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall
the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should
shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should
lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones
leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning
of a fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one
day;
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer
fainteth.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may
write them.
10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and
such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon
him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of
Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty
God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of
them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with
righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in
the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in
Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and
shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine
anger in their destruction.
10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the
sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke
shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up
his carriages:
10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at
Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto
Laish, O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against
the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror:
and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall
be humbled.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon
shall fall by a mighty one.
