Isaiah 10:18-34 ▼

18 He will completely destroy the glory of its forests and orchards as a sickness consumes a person.

19 The remaining trees of its forest will be so few in number that a child could count them.

20 On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

21 The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.

22 Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows.

23 For throughout the land the Lord GOD of Armies is carrying out a destruction that was decreed.

24 Therefore, the Lord GOD of Armies says this: “My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, though they strike you with a rod and raise their staff over you as the Egyptians did.

25 In just a little while my wrath will be spent and my anger will turn to their destruction.”

26 And the LORD of Armies will brandish a whip against him as he did when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the sea as he did in Egypt.

27 On that day his burden will fall from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.

28 Assyria has come to Aiath and has gone through Migron, storing their equipment at Michmash.

29 They crossed over at the ford, saying, “We will spend the night at Geba.” The people of Ramah are trembling; those at Gibeah of Saul have fled.

30 Cry aloud, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Anathoth is miserable.

31 Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.

32 Today the Assyrians will stand at Nob, shaking their fists at the mountain of Daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Look, the Lord GOD of Armies will chop off the branches with terrifying power, and the tall trees will be cut down, the high trees felled.

34 He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.