Isaiah 10:1-11

New International Version

10 Woe^(A) to those who make unjust laws,
    to those who issue oppressive decrees,^(B)
²to deprive^(C) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,^(D)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.^(E)
³What will you do on the day of reckoning,^(F)
    when disaster^(G) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?^(H)
    Where will you leave your riches?
⁴Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives^(I)
    or fall among the slain.^(J)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,^(K)
his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

⁵“Woe^(L) to the Assyrian,^(M) the rod^(N) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club^(O) of my wrath!^(P)
⁶I send him against a godless^(Q) nation,
    I dispatch^(R) him against a people who anger me,^(S)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,^(T)
    and to trample^(U) them down like mud in the streets.
⁷But this is not what he intends,^(V)
    this is not what he has in mind;
his purpose is to destroy,
    to put an end to many nations.
⁸‘Are not my commanders^(W) all kings?’ he says.
⁹    ‘Has not Kalno^(X) fared like Carchemish?^(Y)
Is not Hamath^(Z) like Arpad,^(AA)
    and Samaria^(AB) like Damascus?^(AC)
¹⁰As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,^(AD)
    kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
¹¹shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
    as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?^(AE)’”