Isaiah 10:22-34 ▼

22 For though your people, Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

23 For a complete destruction, one that is determined, the Lord GOD of armies will execute in the midst of the whole land.

24 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of armies says: “My people, you who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod, and lifts up his staff against you the way Egypt did.

25 For in a very little while My indignation against you will be ended and My anger will be directed toward their destruction.”

26 The LORD of armies will wield a whip against him like the defeat of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea, and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

27 So it will be on that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.

28 He has come against Aiath, He has passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his baggage.

29 They have gone through the pass, saying, “Geba will be our encampment for the night.” Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled.

30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!

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

32 Yet today he will halt at Nob; He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord, the GOD of armies, will lop off the branches with terrifying power; Those also who are tall in stature will be cut down, And those who are lofty will be brought low.

34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.