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Isaiah 10:3–6

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10:3What will you do on judgment day,5

when destruction arrives from a distant place?

To whom will you run for help?

Where will you leave your wealth?

10:4You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners,

or to fall among those who have been killed.6

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again.7

The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria

10:5Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead,8

a cudgel with which I angrily punish.9

10:6I sent him10 against a godless11 nation,

I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry,12

to take plunder and to carry away loot,

to trample them down13 like dirt in the streets.

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Footnotes

  1. 5 Heb “the day of visitation” (so , ), that is, the day when God arrives to execute justice on the oppressors.
  2. 6 Heb “except one kneels in the place of the prisoner, and in the place of the slain [who] fall.” On the force of בִּלְתִּי (bilti, “except”) and its logical connection to what precedes, see 116 בֵלֶת. On the force of תַּחַת (takhat, “in the place of”) here, see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (), 1:, n. 6.
  3. 7 Heb “in all this his anger was not turned, and still his hand was outstretched”; , , “his had is stretched out still.” See the note at .
  4. 8 Heb “Woe [to] Assyria, the club of my anger.” On הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) see the note on the first phrase of .
  5. 9 Heb “a cudgel is he, in their hand is my anger.” It seems likely that the final mem (ם) on בְיָדָם (béyadam) is not a pronominal suffix (“in their hand”), but an enclitic mem. If so, one can translate literally, “a cudgel is he in the hand of my anger.”
  6. 10 Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).
  7. 11 Or “defiled”; cf. “profane”; “impious”; “separated from God.”
  8. 12 Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”
  9. 13 Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

What will you do on the day of punishment,

in the ruin that will come from afar?

To whom will you flee for help,

and where will you leave your wealth?

Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners

or fall among the slain.

For all this his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is stretched out still.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger;

the staff in their hands is my fury!

Against a godless nation I send him,

and against the people of my wrath I command him,

to take spoil and seize plunder,

and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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NIVNew International Version (2011)

What will you do on the day of reckoning,

when disaster comes from afar?

To whom will you run for help?

Where will you leave your riches?

Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives

or fall among the slain.

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,

his hand is still upraised.

“Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger,

in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

I send him against a godless nation,

I dispatch him against a people who anger me,

to seize loot and snatch plunder,

and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

What will you do on the day of punishment

when devastation comes from far away?

Who will you run to for help?

Where will you leave your wealth?

There will be nothing to do

except crouch among the prisoners

or fall among the slain.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger—

the staff in their hands is my wrath.

I will send him against a godless nation;

I will command him to go

against a people destined for my rage,

to take spoils, to plunder,

and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

What will you do when I punish you,

when I send disaster upon you from a distant land?

To whom will you turn for help?

Where will your treasures be safe?

You will stumble along as prisoners

or lie among the dead.

But even then the Lord’s anger will not be satisfied.

His fist is still poised to strike.

“What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger.

I use it as a club to express my anger.

I am sending Assyria against a godless nation,

against a people with whom I am angry.

Assyria will plunder them,

trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And what will you do at the day of punishment,

and at calamity? It comes from afar!

To whom will you flee for help,

and where will you leave your wealth,

save that they bow down under the prisoners

and fall under the slain?

In all of this his anger has not turned away,

and still his hand is stretched out.

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger,

and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!

I send him against a godless nation,

and I command him against the people of my wrath,

to capture spoil

and to carry off plunder,

and to make them a trampling place,

like the clay of the streets.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

And what will ye do in the day of visitation,

And in the desolation which shall come from far?

To whom will ye flee for help?

And where will ye leave your glory?

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,

And they shall fall under the slain.

For all this his anger is not turned away,

But his hand is stretched out still.

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger,

And the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

I will send him against an hypocritical nation,

And against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge,

To take the spoil, and to take the prey,

And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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