Isaiah 10:1-10 ▼

1 Woe to those who enact evil statutes And to those who constantly record mischief,

2 So as to turn the poor away from their cause And rob the afflicted of My people of their justice, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the orphans.

3 Now what will you do in the day of visitation, And in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

4 Nothing remains but to crouch among the captives Or fall among those killed. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn back And His hand is still stretched out.

5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

6 I send it against a godless nation And command it against the people of My fury To capture spoil and to seize plunder, And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

7 But it does not intend to act in this way, And it does not think in its heart in this way, Rather, what is in its heart is to destroy And to cut off many nations.

8 For it says, “Are not my princes all kings?

9 Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?

10 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,