Isaiah 10

Woe unto ^athem that decree unrighteous decrees,

And that write ^aagrievousness which they have prescribed;

²To turn aside the needy from judgment,

And to take away the right from ^bthe poor of my people,

^bbThat widows may be their prey,

And that ^bthey may rob the fatherless.

³And ^cwhat will ye do in ^dthe day of ^cvisitation,

And in ^ethe desolation which shall come ^ffrom far?

To whom will ye flee for help?

And where will ye leave your glory?

^4gWithout me they shall bow down under the prisoners,

And they shall fall under the slain.

^hFor all this his anger is not turned away,

But his hand is stretched out still.

⁵O Assyrian, ⁱthe rod of mine anger,

And ⁱthe staff in their hand is mine indignation.

⁶I will send him against ^ka hypocritical nation,

And against the people of my wrath ^lwill I give him a charge,

^mTo take the spoil, and to take the prey,

And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷Howbeit ⁿhe meaneth not so,

Neither doth his heart think so;

But it is in his heart to destroy

And cut off nations not a few.

^8oFor he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹Is not ^pCalno as ^qCarchemish?

^rIs not ^sHamath as ^tArpad?

Is not ^uSamaria ^vas Damascus?

^10wAs my hand hath found the kingdoms of ^xthe idols,

And whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of ^uSamaria;

¹¹Shall I not, as I have done unto ^uSamaria and her ^xidols,

So do to Jerusalem and her ^yidols?

¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, that ^zwhen the Lord hath performed his whole work

^aUpon mount Zion and on Jerusalem,

^bI will punish the fruit of the stout heart of ^cthe king of Assyria,

And the glory of his high looks.

^13dFor he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it,

And ^eby my wisdom; for I am prudent:

And I have removed the bounds of the people,

And have robbed their treasures,

And I have put down the inhabitants like ^fa valiant man:

¹⁴And ^gmy hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:

And as one gathereth eggs that are left,

Have I gathered all the earth;

And there was none that moved the wing,

Or opened the mouth, or ^hpeeped.

¹⁵Shall the axe ⁱboast itself against him that heweth therewith?

Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?

As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up,

Or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

¹⁶Therefore shall ^kthe Lord, the Lord of hosts,

Send among his ^lfat ones ^mleanness;

And under his glory he shall kindle a burning

Like the burning of a fire.

¹⁷And the light of Israel shall be for a fire,

And his Holy One for a flame:

And ⁿit shall burn and devour ^ohis thorns and his briers ^pin one day;

¹⁸And shall consume ^qthe glory of his forest, and of ^rhis fruitful field,

Both soul and body:

And they shall be as when ^ta standard-bearer fainteth.

¹⁹And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,

That a child may write them.

²⁰And it shall come to pass ^uin that day,

That the remnant of Israel,

And ^vsuch as are escaped of the house of Jacob,

^wShall no more again stay upon him that smote them;

But ^xshall stay upon the Lord,

The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

^21yThe remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob,

Unto ^zthe mighty God.

²²For ^athough thy people Israel be ^bas the sand of the sea,

Yet a remnant of them shall return:

^cThe consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

²³For the Lord God of hosts shall ^dmake a consumption, even determined,

In the midst of all the land.

²⁴Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts,

O my people that dwellest in Zion,

^eBe not afraid of the Assyrian:

He shall smite thee with ^fa rod,

And shall lift up his ^fstaff against thee, ^gafter ^hthe manner of Egypt.

²⁵For ⁱyet ^ja very little while, and ^kthe indignation shall cease,

And mine anger in their destruction.

²⁶And ^lthe Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him

According to ^mthe slaughter of Midian at the rock Oreb:

And as ⁿhis rod was upon the sea,

So shall he lift it up ^gafter ^hthe manner of Egypt.

²⁷And it shall come to pass ^oin that day,

That ^phis burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder,

And his yoke from off thy neck,

And the yoke ^qshall be destroyed because of ^rthe anointing.

²⁸He is come to ^rrAiath, he is passed to ^sMigron;

At ^tMichmash he hath laid up his ^ucarriages:

²⁹They are gone over ^vthe passage: they have taken up their lodging at ^wGeba;

^xRamah is afraid; ^yGibeah of Saul is fled.

³⁰Lift up thy voice, O daughter of ^zGallim:

Cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor ^aAnathoth.

^31bMadmenah is removed;

The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

³²As yet shall he remain at ^cNob that day:

He shall ^dshake his hand ^eagainst ^eethe mount of ^fthe daughter of Zion,

The hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, ^gthe Lord, the Lord of hosts,

Shall lop ^hthe bough with terror:

And ⁱthe high ones of stature shall be hewn down,

And the haughty shall be humbled.

³⁴And he shall cut down ^kthe thickets of the forest with iron,

And ^lLebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

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