Isaiah 10:5–21

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

⁵Woe to Assyria, ^ethe rod of my anger;

the staff in their hands is my fury!

⁶Against a ^fgodless nation I send him,

and against the people of my wrath I command him,

to take ^gspoil and seize plunder,

and to ^htread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷But he ⁱdoes 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;

⁸for he says:

^j“Are not my commanders all kings?

^9kIs not ^lCalno like ^mCarchemish?

Is not ⁿHamath like ^oArpad?

^pIs not ^qSamaria like Damascus?

¹⁰As my hand has reached to ^rthe kingdoms of the idols,

whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

¹¹shall I not do to Jerusalem and ^sher idols

^tas I have done to Samaria and her images?”

^12uWhen the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, ^vhe¹ will punish the speech² of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. ^13wFor 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.

¹⁴My 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.”

¹⁵Shall ^xthe 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!

¹⁶Therefore the Lord God of hosts

will send wasting sickness among his ^ystout warriors,

and under his glory ^za burning will be kindled,

like the burning of fire.

^17aThe light of Israel will become a fire,

and ^bhis Holy One a flame,

and ^cit will burn and devour

his thorns and briers ^din one day.

¹⁸The glory of ^ehis forest and of his ^ffruitful land

the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,

and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few

that a child can write them down.

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

^20gIn that day ^hthe remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more ⁱlean on him who struck them, but ^jwill lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ²¹A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, ^kto the mighty God.