12 So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His (A)work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will [a]punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and (B)the arrogant pride of his eyes.”

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  1. Isaiah 10:12 Lit visit

17 And the (A)Light of Israel will become a fire and [a]Israel’s (B)Holy One a flame,
And it will (C)burn and devour [b]his thorns and his briars in a single day.

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  1. Isaiah 10:17 Lit his
  2. Isaiah 10:17 I.e., the Assyrian king’s forces

31 For (A)at the voice of the Lord (B)Assyria will be terrified,
When He strikes with the (C)rod.
32 And every [a]blow of the [b](D)rod of punishment,
Which the Lord will lay on him,
Will be with the music of (E)tambourines and lyres;
And in battles, (F)brandishing weapons, He will fight them.
33 For [c](G)Topheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
[d]A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The (H)breath of the Lord, like a torrent of (I)brimstone, sets it afire.

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  1. Isaiah 30:32 Lit passing
  2. Isaiah 30:32 Lit staff of foundation
  3. Isaiah 30:33 I.e., the place of human sacrifice to Molech
  4. Isaiah 30:33 Lit Its pile

And the (A)Assyrian will fall by a sword not wielded by a man,
And a (B)sword not of man will devour him.
So he will [a](C)not escape the sword,
And his young men will become (D)forced laborers.
“His (E)rock will pass away because of panic,
And his officers will be terrified by the (F)flag,”
Declares the Lord, whose (G)fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

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  1. Isaiah 31:8 Lit flee

Assyrians Destroyed

36 Then the (A)angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of [a]the 185,000 were [b]dead. 37 So Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and [c]returned home and lived in (B)Nineveh. 38 Then it came about, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of (C)Ararat. And his son (D)Esarhaddon became king in his place.

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  1. Isaiah 37:36 Lit them
  2. Isaiah 37:36 Lit dead bodies
  3. Isaiah 37:37 Lit went and returned

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