Isaiah 10:5–21

^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.