Isaiah 10:12–19

Judgment on Assyria

¹²But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I ^qwill punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.” ^r13For he said:

I have done this by my own strength

and wisdom, for I am clever.

I abolished the borders of nations

and plundered their treasures; ^s

like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants. ^tu

¹⁴My hand has reached out, as if into a nest,

to seize the wealth of the nations.

Like one gathering abandoned eggs,

I gathered the whole earth.

No wing fluttered;

no beak opened or chirped.

¹⁵Does an ax exalt itself

above the one who chops with it?

Does a saw magnify itself

above the one who saws with it?

It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts ^vit!

It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn’t wood!

¹⁶Therefore the Lord God of Hosts

will inflict an emaciating disease

on the well-fed of Assyria,

and He will kindle a burning fire

under its glory.

¹⁷Israel’s Light will become a fire,

and its Holy One, a flame. ^w

In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles. ^x

¹⁸He will completely destroy

the glory of its forests and orchards

as a sickness consumes a person.

¹⁹The remaining trees of its forest

will be so few in number

that a child could count them.