Isaiah 10–11

10Woe 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.

^5||O ^†Assyrian, ⁱthe rod of mine anger,

^||And ⁱthe staff in their hand is mine indignation.

⁶I will send him against ^kan 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 standardbearer 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 of 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.

^30†Lift 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.

11And there shall come forth ^aa rod out of ^bthe stem of ^cJesse,

And ^da Branch shall grow out of ^ehis roots:

²And ^fthe spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

^gThe spirit of wisdom and understanding,

The spirit of counsel and might,

The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

³And shall make him of ^†quick understanding in the fear of the Lord:

And ^hhe shall not judge after ⁱthe sight of his eyes,

Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

⁴But ^kwith righteousness shall he judge the poor,

And ^||reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:

And he shall ^lsmite the earth with the rod of his mouth,

And ^mwith the breath of his lips ⁿshall he slay the wicked.

⁵And ^orighteousness ^pshall be the girdle of his loins,

And faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

^6qThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

And ^rthe leopard shall lie down with the kid;

And the calf and ^rrthe young lion and the fatling together;

And a little child shall lead them.

⁷And the cow and the bear shall feed;

Their young ones shall lie down together:

And ^qsthe lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸And the sucking child shall play on the hole of ^ssthe asp,

And the weaned child shall put his hand on the ^||cockatrice’ den.

^9qtThey shall not hurt nor destroy in all ^umy holy mountain:

^vFor the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,

As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰And ^win that day ^xthere shall be ^ya root of Jesse,

Which shall stand for ^zan ensign of the people;

To it shall the Gentiles seek:

And ^ahis rest shall be ^†glorious.

¹¹And it shall come to pass ^win that day,

That the Lord shall set his hand again the second time

To recover the remnant of his people,

^aaWhich shall be left, ^bfrom Assyria,

And ^bfrom Egypt, and from ^cPathros,

And from ^dCush, and from ^eElam, and from ^fShinar,

And from ^gHamath, and from ^hthe islands of the sea.

¹²And ⁱhe shall set up ^jan ensign for the nations,

And shall assemble ^kthe outcasts of Israel,

And ^lgather together ^mthe dispersed of Judah

From the four ^†corners of the earth.

¹³ⁿThe envy also of Ephraim shall depart,

And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off:

Ephraim shall not envy Judah,

And Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

¹⁴But they shall fly upon ^othe shoulders of ^pthe Philistines toward the west;

They shall spoil ^†them of the east together:

^q†They shall lay their hand upon ^rEdom and ^sMoab;

^qAnd ^†the children of ^stAmmon ^ushall obey them.

¹⁵And the Lord ^vshall utterly destroy ^xthe tongue of the Egyptian sea;

And with his mighty wind shall he ^yshake his hand over ^zthe river,

And shall smite it in the seven streams,

And ^amake men go over ^†dryshod.

¹⁶And ^bthere shall be ^can highway for the remnant of his people,

^dWhich shall be left, from Assyria;

^eLike as it was to Israel

In the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.