Isaiah 10

New King James Version

Assyria Shall Be Broken

10 “Woe to those who ^(A)decree 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.
³^(B)What will you do in ^(C)the day of punishment,
And in the desolation which will come from ^(D)afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your glory?
⁴Without Me they shall bow down among the ^(E)prisoners,
And they shall fall ^[a]among the slain.”

^(F)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.

Arrogant Assyria Also Judged

⁵“Woe to Assyria, ^(G)the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
⁶I will send him against ^(H)an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will ^(I)give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷^(J)Yet 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.
⁸^(K)For he says,
‘Are not my princes altogether kings?
⁹Is not ^(L)Calno ^(M)like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria ^(N)like 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 ^[b]performed all His work ^(O)on 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.”

¹³^(Q)For 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 ^[c]valiant man.
¹⁴^(R)My 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 ^(S)the 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 ^[d]Lord 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;
^(T)It will burn and devour
His thorns and his briers in one day.
¹⁸And it will consume the glory of his forest and of ^(U)his 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,
^(V)Will never again depend on him who ^[e]defeated them,
But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
²¹The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob,
To the ^(W)Mighty God.
²²^(X)For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
^(Y)A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
²³^(Z)For 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, ^(AA)do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of ^(AB)Egypt. ²⁵For yet a very little while ^(AC)and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.” ²⁶And the Lord of hosts will ^[f]stir up ^(AD)a scourge for him like the slaughter of ^(AE)Midian at the rock of Oreb; ^(AF)as 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 ^(AG)the anointing oil.

²⁸He has come to Aiath,
He has passed Migron;
At Michmash he has attended to his equipment.
²⁹They have gone ^[g]along ^(AH)the ridge,
They have taken up lodging at Geba.
Ramah is afraid,
^(AI)Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰^[h]Lift up your voice,
O daughter ^(AJ)of Gallim!
Cause it to be heard as far as ^(AK)Laish—
^[i]O poor Anathoth!
³¹^(AL)Madmenah has fled,
The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.
³²As yet he will remain ^(AM)at Nob that day;
He will ^(AN)shake his fist at the mount of ^(AO)the daughter of Zion,
The hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, the Lord,
The Lord of hosts,
Will lop off the bough with terror;
^(AP)Those 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.

Footnotes

Isaiah 10:4 Lit. under
Isaiah 10:12 completed
Isaiah 10:13 mighty
Isaiah 10:16 So with Bg.; MT, DSS YHWH (the Lord)
Isaiah 10:20 Lit. struck
Isaiah 10:26 arouse
Isaiah 10:29 Or over the pass
Isaiah 10:30 Or Cry shrilly
Isaiah 10:30 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. Listen to her, O Anathoth

Isaiah 14

New King James Version

Mercy on Jacob

14 For the Lord ^(A)will have mercy on Jacob, and ^(B)will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. ^(C)The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. ²Then people will take them ^(D)and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, ^(E)and rule over their oppressors.

Fall of the King of Babylon

³It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, ⁴that you ^(F)will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
The ^(G)golden^[a] city ceased!
⁵The Lord has broken ^(H)the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of the rulers;
⁶He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
He who ruled the nations in anger,
Is persecuted and no one hinders.
⁷The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
They break forth into singing.
⁸^(I)Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you,
And the cedars of Lebanon,
Saying, ‘Since you ^[b]were cut down,
No woodsman has come up against us.’

⁹“Hell^(J)^[c] from beneath is excited about you,
To meet you at your coming;
It stirs up the dead for you,
All the chief ones of the earth;
It has raised up from their thrones
All the kings of the nations.
¹⁰They all shall ^(K)speak and say to you:
‘Have you also become as weak as we?
Have you become like us?
¹¹Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
And the sound of your stringed instruments;
The maggot is spread under you,
And worms cover you.’

The Fall of Lucifer

¹²“How^(L) you are fallen from heaven,
O ^[d]Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
¹³For you have said in your heart:
^(M)‘I will ascend into heaven,
^(N)I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the ^(O)mount of the congregation
^(P)On the farthest sides of the north;
¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
^(Q)I will be like the Most High.’
¹⁵Yet you ^(R)shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the ^[e]lowest depths of the Pit.

¹⁶“Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who ^[f]did not open the house of his prisoners?’

¹⁸“All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house;
¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave
Like an ^[g]abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
^[h]Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
²⁰You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
^(S)The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
²¹Prepare slaughter for his children
^(T)Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Babylon Destroyed

²²“For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon ^(U)the name and ^(V)remnant,
^(W)And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.
²³“I will also make it a possession for the ^(X)porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.

Assyria Destroyed

²⁴The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying,
“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,
And as I have purposed, so it shall ^(Y)stand:
²⁵That I will break the ^(Z)Assyrian in My land,
And on My mountains tread him underfoot.
Then ^(AA)his yoke shall be removed from them,
And his burden removed from their shoulders.
²⁶This is the ^(AB)purpose that is purposed against the whole earth,
And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
²⁷For the Lord of hosts has ^(AC)purposed,
And who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out,
And who will turn it back?”

Philistia Destroyed

²⁸This is the ^[i]burden which came in the year that ^(AD)King Ahaz died.

²⁹“Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia,
^(AE)Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper,
^(AF)And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
³⁰The firstborn of the poor will feed,
And the needy will lie down in safety;
I will kill your roots with famine,
And it will slay your remnant.
³¹Wail, O gate! Cry, O city!
All you of Philistia are dissolved;
For smoke will come from the north,
And no one will be alone in his ^[j]appointed times.”