Isaiah 10:1-14 ▼

1 Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity and writers writing perverseness,

2 to turn aside justness from the poor, and to tear away justice from the lowly of My people, that widows may be their prey, and fatherless their plunder!

3 And what will you? do in the day of reckoning, and at the desolation that comes from afar? Upon whom will you? flee for help, and where will you? leave your? wealth?

4 Nothing remains but to kneel down among the prisoners, and among the slain they will fall. In all this, His anger is not turned back and His hand is still stretched out.

5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger, and the staff that is in their hand is My rage.

6 I will send him against a godless nation and I will order him against the people of My wrath, to plunder the plunder and to prey on the prey, and to set them for trampling like the clay of the streets.

7 And he does not consider it so, and his heart does not reckon it so, for to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations—not a few.

8 For he says: “Are not my princes all kings?

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

10 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols and their graven images above those of Jerusalem and Samaria—

11 is it not that as I have done to Samaria and her idols, thus I will do to Jerusalem and her idols?’”

12 And it will come to pass, when YHWH has cut off all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem: “I will reckon with the fruit of the magnitude of the heart of the king of Assyria and with the splendor of the loftiness of his eyes.

13 For he says, ‘By the power of my hand I have done this, and by my own wisdom, for I have understanding; and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and their treasuries I have plundered; and I have brought down like a mighty one those sitting!

14 And my hand has found the riches of the peoples as a nest; and as a gathering of forsaken eggs I have gathered all the earth; and there has not been one flapping a wing or opening its mouth and chirping.’”