Isaiah 10:5-19 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh’s Anger with Assyria’s Arrogance

⁵Woe to ^aAssyria, the ^brod of My angerAnd the staff in whose hands is ^cMy indignation,⁶I send it against a ^agodless nationAnd command it against the ^bpeople of My furyTo capture spoil and ^cto seize plunder,And to ¹trample them down like ^dmud in the streets.⁷But it ^adoes 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 destroyAnd to cut off ¹many nations.⁸For it says, “Are not my princes ¹all kings?⁹“Is not ^aCalno like ^bCarchemish,Or ^cHamath like Arpad,Or ^dSamaria like ^eDamascus?¹⁰“As my hand has reached to the ^akingdoms of the idols,Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,¹¹Shall I not ¹do to Jerusalem and her imagesJust as I have done to Samaria and ^aher idols?”

¹²So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His ^awork on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will ¹punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and ^bthe pomp of his eyes which are raised high.” ¹³For ^ahe has said, “By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this,For I have understanding;And I ^bremoved the boundaries of the peoplesAnd plundered their treasures,And like a mighty man I brought down ¹their inhabitants,

¹⁴And my hand reached for the wealth of the peoples like a ^anest,And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”¹⁵Is the ^aaxe to ^bboast itself over the one who chops with it?Is the saw to magnify itself over the one who wields it?That would be like ^ca rod wielding those who lift it,Or like ^da staff lifting him who is not wood.¹⁶Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send a ^awasting disease among his ^bstout warriors;And under his ^cglory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.¹⁷And the ^alight of Israel will become a fire and his ^bHoly One a flame,And it will ^cburn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.¹⁸And He will ^abring to an end the glory of his forest and of his fruitful orchard, both soul and body,And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.¹⁹And the ^arest of the trees of his forest will be so small in numberThat a child could write them down.