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1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. 3 What will you⁺ do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you⁺ flee for help? Where will you⁺ leave your⁺ wealth? 4 Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised. 5 Woe to Assyria (a step), the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. 6 I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. 7 But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations. 8 “Are not all my commanders kings?” he says. 9 “Is not Calno (fortress of Anu) like Carchemish (fortress of Chemosh)? Is not Hamath (fortress) like Arpad (I shall be supported)? Is not Samaria (watch mountain) like Damascus (well-watered land)? 10 As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem (city of peace) and Samaria (watch mountain), Isaiah 10:1-10, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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