Isaiah 10
Revised Geneva Translation
10 “Woe to those who decree wicked decrees and write grievous things,
2 “to keep back the poor from judgment and to take away the judgment of the poor of My people. So that widows may be their prey and that they may spoil the fatherless.
3 “What will you do now, on the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help and where will you leave your glory?
4 “Without Me, everyone shall fall among those who are bound. And they shall fall down among the slain. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.
5 “O Assyria, the rod of My wrath! And the staff in their hands is My indignation!
6 “I will send him to a profane nation. And I will give him a charge against the people of My wrath, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them under feet like the mire in the street.
7 “But he does not think so, nor does his heart think so. But he imagines to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8 “For he says, ‘Are not my princes all kings?
9 ‘Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus,
10 ‘just as my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (seeing their idols were above Jerusalem and above Samaria).’
11 “Shall not I, as I have done to Samaria and to its idols, so do to Jerusalem and to its idols?
12 “But when the LORD has accomplished all His work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and his glorious and proud looks.
13 “Because he said, ‘By the power of my own hand I have done it, and by my wisdom. Because I am wise.’ “Therefore I have removed the borders of the people, and have spoiled their treasures, and have pulled down the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14 “And My Hand has found the riches of the people as a nest. And as one who gathers leftover eggs, have I gathered all the Earth. And there was no one to move the wing or to open the mouth or to whisper.
15 “Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wield itself against him who raises it, or the staff could lift itself up as if it were not wood?
16 “Therefore, the LORD God of Hosts shall send among His fat men leanness. And under His Glory, He shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
17 “And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame. And it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day
18 “and shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful fields, both soul and flesh. And he shall be as the fainting of a standard bearer.
19 “And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may record them.”
20 And at that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped from the House of Jacob, lean no more upon him who struck them, but shall lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return (the remnant of Jacob) to the Mighty God.
22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, the remnant of them shall return. The decreed destruction shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of Hosts shall make the determined destruction in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion. Do not be afraid of Assyria. He shall strike you with a rod and shall lift up his staff against you, just as Egypt did.
25 “But yet a very little time and the wrath shall be consumed, and My anger, in their destruction.”
26 And the LORD of Hosts shall raise up a scourge for him, according to the plague of Midian, in the rock Oreb. And as his staff was upon the sea, so he will lift it up as in Egypt.
27 And at that day shall his burden be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck. And the yoke shall be destroyed, because of the anointing.
28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed into Migron. At Michmash he shall lay up his armor.
29 They have gone over the pass. They stayed in the lodging at Geba. Ramah is afraid. Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
30 Lift up your voice, O daughter Gallim! Cause Laish to hear, O poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah is removed! The inhabitants of Gebim have gathered themselves together.
32 Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob. He shall lift up his hand toward the Mount of the daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the LORD God of Hosts shall cut off the bough with terror. And they of high stature shall be cut off. And the high shall be humbled.
34 And He shall cut away the thick places of the forest with iron. And Lebanon shall have a mighty fall.
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