Isaiah 10–24

10“Woe to those who ^adecree unrighteous decrees,

Who write misfortune,

Which they have prescribed

²To rob the needy of justice,

And to take what is right from the poor of My people,

That widows may be their prey,

And that they may rob the fatherless.

^3bWhat will you do in ^cthe day of punishment,

And in the desolation which will come from ^dafar?

To whom will you flee for help?

And where will you leave your glory?

⁴Without Me they shall bow down among the ^eprisoners,

And they shall fall ¹among the slain.”

^fFor all this His anger is not turned away,

But His hand is stretched out still.

Arrogant Assyria Also Judged

⁵“Woe to Assyria, ^gthe rod of My anger

And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

⁶I will send him against ^han ungodly nation,

And against the people of My wrath

I will ⁱgive him charge,

To seize the spoil, to take the prey,

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

^7jYet he does not mean so,

Nor does his heart think so;

But it is in his heart to destroy,

And cut off not a few nations.

^8kFor he says,

‘Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹Is not ^lCalno ^mlike Carchemish?

Is not Hamath like Arpad?

Is not Samaria ⁿlike Damascus?

¹⁰As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols,

Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

¹¹As I have done to Samaria and her idols,

Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?’ ”

¹²Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has ²performed all His work ^oon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, ^p“I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.”

^13qFor he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,

And by my wisdom, for I am prudent;

Also I have removed the boundaries of the people,

And have robbed their treasuries;

So I have put down the inhabitants like a ³valiant man.

^14rMy hand has found like a nest the riches of the people,

And as one gathers eggs that are left,

I have gathered all the earth;

And there was no one who moved his wing,

Nor opened his mouth with even a peep.”

¹⁵Shall ^sthe ax boast itself against him who chops with it?

Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it?

As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up,

Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood!

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, the ⁴Lord of hosts,

Will send leanness among his fat ones;

And under his glory

He will kindle a burning

Like the burning of a fire.

¹⁷So the Light of Israel will be for a fire,

And his Holy One for a flame;

^tIt will burn and devour

His thorns and his briers in one day.

¹⁸And it will consume the glory of his forest and of ^uhis fruitful field,

Both soul and body;

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

¹⁹Then the rest of the trees of his forest

Will be so few in number

That a child may write them.

The Returning Remnant of Israel

²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day

That the remnant of Israel,

And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob,

^vWill never again depend on him who ⁵defeated them,

But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob,

To the ^wMighty God.

^22xFor though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,

^yA remnant of them will return;

The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

^23zFor the Lord God of hosts

Will make a determined end

In the midst of all the land.

²⁴Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, ^ado not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of ^bEgypt. ²⁵For yet a very little while ^cand the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.” ²⁶And the Lord of hosts will ⁶stir up ^da scourge for him like the slaughter of ^eMidian at the rock of Oreb; ^fas His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt.

²⁷It shall come to pass in that day

That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder,

And his yoke from your neck,

And the yoke will be destroyed because of ^gthe anointing oil.

²⁸He has come to Aiath,

He has passed Migron;

At Michmash he has attended to his equipment.

²⁹They have gone ⁷along ^hthe ridge,

They have taken up lodging at Geba.

Ramah is afraid,

ⁱGibeah of Saul has fled.

³⁰⁸Lift up your voice,

O daughter ^jof Gallim!

Cause it to be heard as far as ^kLaish—

⁹O poor Anathoth!

^31lMadmenah has fled,

The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.

³²As yet he will remain ^mat Nob that day;

He will ⁿshake his fist at the mount of ^othe daughter of Zion,

The hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, the Lord,

The Lord of hosts,

Will lop off the bough with terror;

^pThose of high stature will be hewn down,

And the haughty will be humbled.

³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,

And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

The Reign of Jesse’s Offspring

11There ^ashall come forth a ¹Rod from the ²stem of ^bJesse,

And ^ca Branch shall ³grow out of his roots.

^2dThe Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him,

The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

The Spirit of counsel and might,

The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

³His delight is in the fear of the Lord,

And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,

Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;

⁴But ^ewith righteousness He shall judge the poor,

And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;

He shall ^fstrike the earth with the rod of His mouth,

And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.

⁵Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,

And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

⁶“The ^gwolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,

The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;

And a little child shall lead them.

⁷The cow and the bear shall graze;

Their young ones shall lie down together;

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,

And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.

^9hThey shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,

For ⁱthe earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord

As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰“And ^jin that day ^kthere shall be a Root of Jesse,

Who shall stand as a ^lbanner to the people;

For the ^mGentiles shall seek Him,

And His resting place shall be glorious.”

¹¹It shall come to pass in that day

That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time

To recover the remnant of His people who are left,

ⁿFrom Assyria and Egypt,

From Pathros and Cush,

From Elam and Shinar,

From Hamath and the ⁴islands of the sea.

¹²He will set up a banner for the nations,

And will ⁵assemble the outcasts of Israel,

And gather together ^othe dispersed of Judah

From the four ⁶corners of the earth.

¹³Also ^pthe envy of Ephraim shall depart,

And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;

Ephraim shall not envy Judah,

And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

¹⁴But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;

Together they shall plunder the ⁷people of the East;

^qThey shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;

And the people of Ammon shall obey them.

¹⁵The Lord ^rwill utterly ⁸destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt;

With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over ⁹the River,

And strike it in the seven streams,

And make men cross over ¹dryshod.

^16sThere will be a highway for the remnant of His people

Who will be left from Assyria,

^tAs it was for Israel

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

A Hymn of Praise

12And ^ain that day you will say:

“O Lord, I will praise You;

Though You were angry with me,

Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.

²Behold, God is my salvation,

I will trust and not be afraid;

^b‘For ^cYah, the Lord, is my strength and song;

He also has become my salvation.’ ”

³Therefore with joy you will draw ^dwater

From the wells of salvation.

⁴And in that day you will say:

^e“Praise the Lord, call upon His name;

^fDeclare His deeds among the peoples,

Make mention that His ^gname is exalted.

^5hSing to the Lord,

For He has done excellent things;

This is known in all the earth.

⁶ⁱCry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion,

For great is ^jthe Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

Proclamation Against Babylon

13The ^aburden ¹against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

²“Lift ^bup a banner ^con the high mountain,

Raise your voice to them;

^dWave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

³I have commanded My ²sanctified ones;

I have also called ^eMy mighty ones for My anger—

Those who ^frejoice in My exaltation.”

⁴The ^gnoise of a multitude in the mountains,

Like that of many people!

A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!

The Lord of hosts musters

The army for battle.

⁵They come from a far country,

From the end of heaven—

The ^hLord and His ³weapons of indignation,

To destroy the whole ⁱland.

⁶Wail, ^jfor the day of the Lord is at hand!

^kIt will come as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Therefore all hands will be limp,

Every man’s heart will melt,

⁸And they will be afraid.

^lPangs ⁴and sorrows will take hold of them;

They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;

They will be amazed at one another;

Their faces will be like flames.

⁹Behold, ^mthe day of the Lord comes,

Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,

To lay the land desolate;

And He will destroy ⁿits sinners from it.

¹⁰For the stars of heaven and their constellations

Will not give their light;

The sun will be ^odarkened in its going forth,

And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

¹¹“I will ^ppunish the world for its evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity;

^qI will halt the arrogance of the proud,

And will lay low the haughtiness of the ⁵terrible.

¹²I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,

A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

^13rTherefore I will shake the heavens,

And the earth will move out of her place,

In the wrath of the Lord of hosts

And in ^sthe day of His fierce anger.

¹⁴It shall be as the hunted gazelle,

And as a sheep that no man ⁶takes up;

^tEvery man will turn to his own people,

And everyone will flee to his own land.

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through,

And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their children also will be ^udashed to pieces before their eyes;

Their houses will be plundered

And their…