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Isaiah 10
Assyria Is God’s Instrument
And to those who constantly record unjust decisions,
And rob the poor of My people of their rights,
So that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the orphans.
And in the devastation which will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your wealth?
Or fall among the slain.
In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.
Nor does it plan so in its heart,
But rather it is its purpose to destroy
And to cut off many nations.
Or Hamath like Arpad,
Or Samaria like Damascus?
Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?”
12So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness.”
13For he has said,
For I have understanding;
And I removed the boundaries of the peoples
And plundered their treasures,
And like a mighty man I brought down their inhabitants,
And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;
And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”
Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it?
That would be like a club wielding those who lift it,
Or like a rod lifting him who is not wood.
And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.
And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
That a child could write them down.
A Remnant Will Return
20Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Only a remnant within them will return;
A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
23For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord GOD of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.
24Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.
25“For in a very little while My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction.”
26The LORD of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.
27So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
He has passed through Migron;
At Michmash he deposited his baggage.
“Geba will be our lodging place.”
Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!
The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.
He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Those also who are tall in stature will be cut down
And those who are lofty will be abased.
And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.