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Isaiah 10 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees,
and the writers who keep writing oppression,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil,
and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:3 - What will you do on the day of punishment,
in the ruin that will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
and where will you leave your wealth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:4 - Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain.
For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:5 - Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - But he does not so intend,
and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:8 - for he says:
“Are not my commanders all kings?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:9 - Is not Calno like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria like Damascus?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:10 - As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols,
whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols
as I have done to Samaria and her images?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:12 - When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he[fn] will punish the speech[fn] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he says:
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
and plunder their treasures;
like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:14 - My hand has found like a nest
the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened the mouth or chirped.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 - Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:16 - Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts
will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors,
and under his glory a burning will be kindled,
like the burning of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - The light of Israel will become a fire,
and his Holy One a flame,
and it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers in one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:18 - The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land
the LORD will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:19 - The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:20 - In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:21 - A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 - For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:23 - For the Lord GOD of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:24 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 - And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:27 - And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28 - He has come to Aiath;
he has passed through Migron;
at Michmash he stores his baggage;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:29 - they have crossed over the pass;
at Geba they lodge for the night;
Ramah trembles;
Gibeah of Saul has fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:30 - Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim!
Give attention, O Laishah!
O poor Anathoth!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:31 - Madmenah is in flight;
the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:32 - This very day he will halt at Nob;
he will shake his fist
at the mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:33 - Behold, the Lord GOD of hosts
will lop the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
and the lofty will be brought low.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:34 - He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe,
and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.
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Hebrew I
Hebrew fruit
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
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Isaiah Chapter 10 — Additional Translations:

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