Isaiah 10:1-12 ▼

1 |How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed

2 to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans!

3 What will you do on the day of Judgment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you run for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

4 so you won't have to crouch among those in chains or fall among the slain? |Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.|

5 |How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands!

6 I'm sending my fury against a godless nation, and I'll command him against the people with whom I'm angry to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

7 But this is not what he intends, and this is not what he thinks in his mind; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut down many nations.

8 |Because this is what he is saying: 'My commanders are all kings, are they not?

9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?

10 As my hand has reached to the idolatrous kingdoms whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

11 will I not deal with Jerusalem and her idols as I have dealt with Samaria and her images?'|

12 |For the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem; he will punish the speech that comes from that willful heart of Assyria's king and the haughty look in his eyes.