Chapter 10
Isaiah · Prophet Isaiah
¹ Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness, ² perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil. ³ And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory, ⁴ that ye may not fall into captivity?
Isa 10:1-4
⁵ Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands. ⁶ I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust. ⁷ But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and [that] to destroy nations not a few. ⁸ And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler; ⁹ then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Calno, where the tower was built? and have I [not] taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria? ¹⁰ As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria. ¹¹ For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols. ¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, [that] I will visit upon the proud heart, [even] upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me. ¹⁵ Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so; ¹⁶ but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonor upon thine honor, and burning fire shall be kindled upon thy glory. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass. ¹⁸ In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and [fire] shall devour [both] soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame. ¹⁹ And they that are left of them shall be a [small] number, and a child shall write them.
Isa 10:5-19
²⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the remnant of Israel shall no more join themselves with, and the saved of Jacob shall no more trust in, them that injured them; but they shall trust in the Holy God of Israel, in truth. ²¹ And the remnant of Jacob shall [trust] on the mighty God. ²² And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved. ²³ He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short work in all the world.
Isa 10:20-23
²⁴ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell in Zion, of the Assyrians, because he shall smite thee with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon thee, that [thou] mayest see the way of Egypt. ²⁵ For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease: but my wrath shall be against their council. ²⁶ And God will stir up [enemies] against them, according to the stroke of Midian in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, [even] to the way that leads to Egypt. ²⁷ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his yoke shall be taken away from thy shoulder, and his fear from thee, and the yoke shall be destroyed from off your shoulders.
Isa 10:24-27
²⁸ For he shall arrive at the city of Aiath, and shall pass on to Megiddo, and shall lay up his stores in Michmash. ²⁹ And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Aiath: fear shall seize upon Ramah, the city of Saul. ³⁰ The daughter of Gallim shall flee; Laishah shall hear; one shall hear in Anathoth. ³¹ Madmenah also is amazed, and the inhabitants of Gebim.
Isa 10:28-31
³² Exhort ye [them] today to remain in the way: exhort ye [beckoning] with the hand the mountain, the daughter of Zion, even ye hills that are in Jerusalem.
Isa 10:32