Isaiah 10:5–21

⁵Woe to ^aAssyria, the ^brod of My anger

And the staff in whose hands is ^cMy indignation,

⁶I send it against a ^agodless nation

And commission it against the ^bpeople of My fury

To capture booty and ^cto seize plunder,

And to ¹trample them down like ^dmud in the streets.

⁷Yet it ^adoes not so intend,

Nor does ¹it plan so in its heart,

But rather it is ²its purpose to destroy

And to cut off ³many nations.

⁸For it says, “Are not my princes ¹all kings?

⁹“Is not ^aCalno like ^bCarchemish,

Or ^cHamath like Arpad,

Or ^dSamaria like ^eDamascus?

¹⁰“As my hand has reached to the ^akingdoms of the idols,

Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

¹¹Shall I not ¹do to Jerusalem and her images

Just as I have done to Samaria and ^aher idols?”

¹²So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His ^awork on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will ¹punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and ^bthe pomp of ²his haughtiness.”

¹³For ^ahe has said,

“By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this,

For I have understanding;

And I ^bremoved the boundaries of the peoples

And plundered their treasures,

And like a mighty man I brought down ¹their inhabitants,

¹⁴And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a ^anest,

And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;

And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”

¹⁵Is the ^aaxe to ^bboast itself over the one who chops with it?

Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it?

That would be like ^ca ¹club wielding those who lift it,

Or like a rod lifting him who is not wood.

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, the ¹God of hosts, will send a ^awasting disease among his ^bstout warriors;

And under his ^cglory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

¹⁷And the ^alight of Israel will become a fire and his ^bHoly One a flame,

And it will ^cburn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

¹⁸And He will ^adestroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body,

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

¹⁹And the ^arest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number

That a child could write them down.

A Remnant Will Return

²⁰Now in that day the ^aremnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob ^bwho have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly ^crely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

²¹A ^aremnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the ^bmighty God.