Isaiah 10 :: New English Translation (NET)

Assyria Is God's Instrument

Isa 10:1Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

Isa 10:2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

Isa 10:3

Isa 10:3What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Isa 10:4

Isa 10:4You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

Isa 10:5

Isa 10:5Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

Isa 10:6

Isa 10:6I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

Isa 10:7

Isa 10:7But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

Isa 10:8

Isa 10:8Indeed, he says: "Are not my officials all kings?

Isa 10:9

Isa 10:9Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

Isa 10:10

Isa 10:10I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem's or Samaria's.

Isa 10:11

Isa 10:11As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols."

Isa 10:12

Isa 10:12But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.

Isa 10:13

Isa 10:13For he says: "By my strong hand I have accomplished this, by my strategy that I devised. I invaded the territory of nations, and looted their storehouses. Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers.

Isa 10:14

Isa 10:14My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping."

Isa 10:15

Isa 10:15Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

Isa 10:16

Isa 10:16For this reason the sovereign master, the LORD who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.

Isa 10:17

Isa 10:17The light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One will become a flame; it will burn and consume the Assyrian king's briers and his thorns in one day.

Isa 10:18

Isa 10:18The splendor of his forest and his orchard will be completely destroyed, as when a sick man's life ebbs away.

Isa 10:19

Isa 10:19There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.

A Remnant Will Return

Isa 10:20

Isa 10:20At that time those left in Israel, those who remain of the family of Jacob, will no longer rely on a foreign leader that abuses them. Instead they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 10:21

Isa 10:21A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Isa 10:22

Isa 10:22For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.

Isa 10:23

Isa 10:23The sovereign master, the LORD who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

Isa 10:24

Isa 10:24So here is what the sovereign master, the LORD who commands armies, says: "My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did.

Isa 10:25

Isa 10:25For very soon my fury will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction."

Isa 10:26

Isa 10:26The LORD who commands armies is about to beat them with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt.

Isa 10:27

Isa 10:27At that time the LORD will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

Isa 10:28

Isa 10:28They attacked Aiath, moved through Migron, depositing their supplies at Micmash.

Isa 10:29

Isa 10:29They went through the pass, spent the night at Geba. Ramah trembled, Gibeah of Saul ran away.

Isa 10:30

Isa 10:30Shout out, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!

Isa 10:31

Isa 10:31Madmenah flees, the residents of Gebim have hidden.

Isa 10:32

Isa 10:32This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion's mountain - at the hill of Jerusalem.

Isa 10:33

Isa 10:33Look, the sovereign master, the LORD who commands armies, is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power. The tallest trees will be cut down, the loftiest ones will be brought low.

Isa 10:34

Isa 10:34The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.

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Isaiah 10 :: New English Translation (NET)

Assyria Is God's Instrument

A Remnant Will Return

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