Isaiah 10 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Assyria Is God’s Instrument

10 Woe to those who (A)enact unjust statutes
And to those who constantly record [a]harmful decisions,
2 So as (B)to [b]deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor among My people of their rights,
So (C)that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the [c]orphans.
3 Now (D)what will you do in the (E)day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come (F)from afar?
(G)To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your wealth?
4 Nothing remains but to crouch [d]among the (H)captives
Or fall [e]among those (I)killed.
(J)In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.

5 Woe to (K)Assyria, the (L)rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is (M)My indignation,
6 I send it against a (N)godless nation
And commission it against the (O)people of My fury
To capture spoils and (P)to seize plunder,
And to [f]trample them down like (Q)mud in the streets.
7 Yet it (R)does not so intend,
Nor does [g]it plan so in its heart,
But rather it is [h]its purpose to destroy
And to eliminate [i]many nations.
8 For it says, “Are not my officers [j]all kings?
9 Is not (S)Calno like (T)Carchemish,
Or (U)Hamath like Arpad,
Or (V)Samaria like (W)Damascus?
10 As my hand has reached to the (X)kingdoms of the idols,
Whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 Shall I not do the same to Jerusalem and her images
Just as I have done to Samaria and (Y)her idols?”

12 So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His (Z)work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will [k]punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and (AA)the arrogant pride of his eyes.” 13 For (AB)he has said,

“By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this,
Because I have understanding;
And I (AC)removed the boundaries of the peoples
And plundered their treasures,
And like a powerful man I brought down [l]their inhabitants,
14 And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a (AD)nest,
And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;
And there was not one that flapped its wing, opened its beak, or chirped.”

15 Is the (AE)axe to (AF)boast itself over the one who chops with it?
Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it?
That would be like (AG)a [m]club wielding those who lift it,
Or like (AH)a rod lifting the one who is not wood.
16 Therefore the Lord, the [n]God of armies, will send a (AI)wasting disease among his (AJ)stout warriors;
And under his (AK)glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
17 And the (AL)Light of Israel will become a fire and [o]Israel’s (AM)Holy One a flame,
And it will (AN)burn and devour [p]his thorns and his briars in a single day.
18 And He will (AO)destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body,
And it will be as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the (AP)rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number
That a child could write them down.

A Remnant Will Return

20 Now on that day the (AQ)remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob (AR)who have escaped, will no longer rely on the one who struck them, but will truly (AS)rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

21 A (AT)remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the (AU)mighty God.
22 For (AV)though your people, Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A (AW)destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

23 For a complete destruction, one that is determined, (AX)the Lord [q]God of armies will execute in the midst of the whole land.

24 Therefore this is what the Lord [r]God of armies says: “My people, you who dwell in (AY)Zion, (AZ)do not fear the Assyrian [s]who (BA)strikes you with the rod, and lifts up his staff against you the way Egypt did. 25 For in a very (BB)little while (BC)My indignation against you will be ended and My anger will be directed toward their destruction.” 26 The Lord of armies will (BD)wield a whip against him like the defeat of (BE)Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His (BF)staff will be over the sea, and He will lift it up (BG)the way He did in Egypt. 27 So it will be on that day, that [t]his (BH)burden will be removed from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because (BI)of fatness.

28 He has come against Aiath,
He has passed through (BJ)Migron;
At (BK)Michmash he deposited his (BL)baggage.
29 They have gone through (BM)the pass, saying,
“(BN)Geba will be our encampment for the night.”
(BO)Ramah is terrified, and (BP)Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of (BQ)Gallim!
Pay attention, Laishah and [u]wretched (BR)Anathoth!
31 Madmenah has fled.
The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.
32 Yet today he will halt at (BS)Nob;
He (BT)shakes his fist at the mountain of the [v](BU)daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord, the [w]God of armies, will lop off the branches with terrifying power;
Those also who are (BV)tall in stature will be cut down,
And those who are lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,
And (BW)Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:1 Lit harm
  2. Isaiah 10:2 Lit turn the needy aside from
  3. Isaiah 10:2 Or fatherless
  4. Isaiah 10:4 Lit under
  5. Isaiah 10:4 Lit under
  6. Isaiah 10:6 Lit make them a trampled place
  7. Isaiah 10:7 Lit its heart so plan
  8. Isaiah 10:7 Lit in its heart
  9. Isaiah 10:7 Lit not a few
  10. Isaiah 10:8 Lit altogether
  11. Isaiah 10:12 Lit visit
  12. Isaiah 10:13 Or those who sit on thrones
  13. Isaiah 10:15 Lit staff
  14. Isaiah 10:16 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  15. Isaiah 10:17 Lit his
  16. Isaiah 10:17 I.e., the Assyrian king’s forces
  17. Isaiah 10:23 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  18. Isaiah 10:24 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  19. Isaiah 10:24 Lit he
  20. Isaiah 10:27 I.e., the Assyrian
  21. Isaiah 10:30 An ancient version reads Answer her, O Anathoth
  22. Isaiah 10:32 Another reading is house of
  23. Isaiah 10:33 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

Cross references

  1. Isaiah 10:1 : Ps 94:20; Is 29:21; 59:4, 13
  2. Isaiah 10:2 : Is 5:23
  3. Isaiah 10:2 : Is 1:23; 3:14, 15
  4. Isaiah 10:3 : Job 31:14
  5. Isaiah 10:3 : Is 13:6; 26:14, 21; 29:6; Jer 9:9; Hos 9:7; Luke 19:44
  6. Isaiah 10:3 : Is 5:26
  7. Isaiah 10:3 : Is 20:6; 30:5, 7; 31:3
  8. Isaiah 10:4 : Is 24:22
  9. Isaiah 10:4 : Is 22:2; 34:3; 66:16
  10. Isaiah 10:4 : Is 5:25
  11. Isaiah 10:5 : Is 7:17; 8:7; 14:24-27; Zeph 2:13-15
  12. Isaiah 10:5 : Jer 51:20
  13. Isaiah 10:5 : Is 13:5; 30:30; 34:2; 66:14
  14. Isaiah 10:6 : Is 9:17
  15. Isaiah 10:6 : Is 9:19
  16. Isaiah 10:6 : Is 5:29
  17. Isaiah 10:6 : Is 5:25
  18. Isaiah 10:7 : Gen 50:20; Mic 4:11, 12; Acts 2:23, 24
  19. Isaiah 10:9 : Gen 10:10; Amos 6:2
  20. Isaiah 10:9 : 2 Chr 35:20
  21. Isaiah 10:9 : Num 34:8
  22. Isaiah 10:9 : 2 Kin 17:6
  23. Isaiah 10:9 : 2 Kin 16:9
  24. Isaiah 10:10 : 2 Kin 19:17, 18
  25. Isaiah 10:11 : Is 2:8
  26. Isaiah 10:12 : 2 Kin 19:31; Is 28:21, 22; 29:14; 65:7
  27. Isaiah 10:12 : Is 37:23
  28. Isaiah 10:13 : 2 Kin 19:22-24; Is 37:24-27; Ezek 28:4; Dan 4:30
  29. Isaiah 10:13 : Hab 2:6-11
  30. Isaiah 10:14 : Jer 49:16; Obad 4
  31. Isaiah 10:15 : Jer 51:20
  32. Isaiah 10:15 : Is 29:16; 45:9; Rom 9:20, 21
  33. Isaiah 10:15 : Is 10:5
  34. Isaiah 10:15 : Is 10:5
  35. Isaiah 10:16 : Ps 106:15
  36. Isaiah 10:16 : Is 17:4
  37. Isaiah 10:16 : Is 8:7; 10:18
  38. Isaiah 10:17 : Is 30:33; 31:9
  39. Isaiah 10:17 : Is 37:23
  40. Isaiah 10:17 : Num 11:1-3; Is 27:4; 33:12; Jer 4:4; 7:20
  41. Isaiah 10:18 : Is 10:33, 34
  42. Isaiah 10:19 : Is 21:17
  43. Isaiah 10:20 : Is 1:9; 11:11, 16; 46:3
  44. Isaiah 10:20 : Is 4:2; 37:31, 32
  45. Isaiah 10:20 : 2 Chr 14:11; Is 17:7, 8; 50:10
  46. Isaiah 10:21 : Is 7:3
  47. Isaiah 10:21 : Is 9:6
  48. Isaiah 10:22 : Rom 9:27, 28
  49. Isaiah 10:22 : Is 28:22; Dan 9:27; Rom 9:28
  50. Isaiah 10:23 : Is 28:22; Dan 9:27; Rom 9:28
  51. Isaiah 10:24 : Ps 87:5, 6
  52. Isaiah 10:24 : Is 7:4; 12:2; 37:6
  53. Isaiah 10:24 : Ex 5:14-16
  54. Isaiah 10:25 : Is 17:14; Hag 2:6
  55. Isaiah 10:25 : Is 10:5; 26:20; Dan 11:36
  56. Isaiah 10:26 : Is 37:36-38
  57. Isaiah 10:26 : Judg 7:25; Is 9:4
  58. Isaiah 10:26 : Ex 14:16
  59. Isaiah 10:26 : Ex 14:27
  60. Isaiah 10:27 : Is 9:4; 14:25
  61. Isaiah 10:27 : Is 30:23; 55:2
  62. Isaiah 10:28 : 1 Sam 14:2
  63. Isaiah 10:28 : 1 Sam 13:2, 5
  64. Isaiah 10:28 : Judg 18:21; 1 Sam 17:22
  65. Isaiah 10:29 : 1 Sam 13:23
  66. Isaiah 10:29 : Josh 21:17; 1 Sam 13:16
  67. Isaiah 10:29 : Josh 18:25; 1 Sam 7:17
  68. Isaiah 10:29 : 1 Sam 10:26
  69. Isaiah 10:30 : 1 Sam 25:44
  70. Isaiah 10:30 : Josh 21:18; Jer 1:1
  71. Isaiah 10:32 : 1 Sam 21:1; 22:9
  72. Isaiah 10:32 : Is 19:16; Zech 2:9
  73. Isaiah 10:32 : Is 1:8; Jer 6:23
  74. Isaiah 10:33 : Is 37:24, 36-38; Ezek 31:3; Amos 2:9
  75. Isaiah 10:34 : Is 2:13; 33:9; 37:24

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