Isaiah 10 (NET)

Isaiah 10:1¹Beware, those who enact unjust policies; those who are always instituting unfair regulations,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:52Mic 3:1-4Matt 23:23Ps 94:20-21Hab 2:6John 19:6John 9:22Luke 11:42-44Hab 2:12Hab 2:9

Isaiah 10:2²to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 3:5Isa 3:14Ezek 22:7Isa 1:23Isa 29:21Isa 5:23Amos 2:7Amos 5:11-12Isa 5:7Jer 7:6

Isaiah 10:3³What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 9:7Luke 19:44Job 31:141 Pet 2:12Isa 20:6Isa 26:21Isa 5:26Prov 11:4Zeph 1:18Deut 28:49

Isaiah 10:4⁴You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:25Deut 32:30Isa 9:12Jer 37:10Deut 31:15-18Hos 9:12Isa 22:2Isa 24:22Isa 34:3Isa 66:16

Isaiah 10:5⁵“Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:15Isa 14:25Isa 30:30Jer 51:20-24Zeph 2:13Isa 13:5Isa 14:5-6Isa 66:14Gen 10:11Isa 8:4

Isaiah 10:6⁶I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:17Isa 10:13-14Isa 19:17Isa 37:26-27Jer 25:9Jer 34:22Jer 47:6-7Zech 10:52 Sam 22:43Isa 22:5

Isaiah 10:7⁷But he does not agree with this; his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 50:20Acts 2:23Mic 4:11-12Acts 13:27-30Isa 36:18-20Isa 37:11-13

Isaiah 10:8⁸Indeed, he says: ‘Are not my officials all kings?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:242 Kgs 19:10Dan 2:37Ezek 26:7Isa 36:8

Isaiah 10:9⁹Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 35:202 Kgs 16:9Gen 10:10Jer 46:22 Kgs 17:242 Kgs 17:5-62 Kgs 18:9-102 Sam 8:9Amos 6:1-2Isa 17:3

Isaiah 10:10¹⁰I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s or Samaria’s.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:12-162 Chr 32:192 Kgs 18:33-352 Kgs 19:12-132 Kgs 19:17-19Isa 10:14

Isaiah 10:11¹¹As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:10-13Isa 2:8Isa 36:19-20

Isaiah 10:12¹²But when the Lord finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then he will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 50:182 Kgs 19:31Dan 4:37Ezek 31:10Ezek 31:14Isa 10:16-19Isa 10:25-34Isa 10:5-6Isa 14:24-27Isa 17:12-14

Isaiah 10:13¹³For he says: “By my strong hand I have accomplished this, by my strategy that I devised. I invaded the territory of nations, and looted their storehouses. Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:30Deut 8:171 Chr 5:262 Kgs 15:292 Kgs 16:82 Kgs 17:242 Kgs 17:62 Kgs 18:112 Kgs 18:152 Kgs 18:32

Isaiah 10:14¹⁴My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 31:25Hab 2:5-11Hos 12:7-8Isa 5:8Jer 49:16Nah 2:9-3:1Obad 1:4Prov 18:12Prov 21:6-7

Isaiah 10:15¹⁵Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:20-21Isa 45:9Isa 10:5Isa 29:16Ezek 28:9Jer 51:20-23Ps 17:13-14

Isaiah 10:16¹⁶For this reason the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:21Acts 12:23Ps 106:15Isa 10:18Isa 14:24-27Isa 17:4Isa 29:5-8Isa 30:30-33Isa 33:10-14Isa 37:29

Isaiah 10:17¹⁷The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One will become a flame; it will burn and consume the Assyrian king’s briers and his thorns in one day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 27:4Isa 37:23Jer 4:4Jer 7:20Nah 1:10Num 11:1-3Num 16:35Rev 22:52 Thess 1:7-9Heb 12:29

Isaiah 10:18¹⁸The splendor of his forest and his orchard will be completely destroyed, as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:23Isa 10:33-342 Kgs 19:28Ezek 20:47-48Isa 9:18Jer 21:14

Isaiah 10:19¹⁹There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 21:17Isa 37:36

Isaiah 10:20²⁰At that time those left in Israel, those who remain of the family of Jacob, will no longer rely on a foreign leader that abuses them. Instead they will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:31-322 Chr 28:202 Kgs 16:7Isa 1:9Isa 17:7-8Isa 50:10Ezra 9:14Hos 14:3Hos 5:13Isa 11:11

Isaiah 10:21²¹A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:62 Cor 3:14-16Acts 26:20Hos 14:1Hos 6:1Hos 7:10Hos 7:16Isa 19:22Isa 55:7Isa 65:8-9

Isaiah 10:22²²For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:27-28Isa 6:13Dan 9:27Rev 20:8Rom 11:5-61 Kgs 4:20Acts 17:31Gen 18:25Hos 1:10Isa 27:10-11

Isaiah 10:23²³The Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 28:22Dan 4:35Isa 14:26-27Isa 24:1-23Rom 9:28

Isaiah 10:24²⁴So here is what the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:22-24Isa 37:6Isa 61:3Exod 1:10-16Exod 14:21-31Exod 14:9Exod 15:6-10Exod 5:14Isa 10:5Isa 12:6

Isaiah 10:25²⁵For very soon my fury will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 11:362 Kgs 19:35Heb 10:37Isa 10:33-34Isa 10:5Isa 12:1-2Isa 14:24-25Isa 17:12-14Isa 30:30-33Isa 31:4-9

Isaiah 10:26²⁶The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is about to beat them with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:4Judg 7:252 Kgs 19:35Exod 14:16Exod 14:25-27Hab 3:7-15Isa 10:16-19Isa 10:24Isa 11:16Isa 37:36-38

Isaiah 10:27²⁷At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:4Luke 4:18Isa 14:25Ps 105:151 John 2:20Ps 45:7Nah 1:9-13Ps 20:61 John 2:27Ps 132:17-18

Isaiah 10:28²⁸They attacked Aiath, moved through Migron, depositing their supplies at Micmash.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 14:21 Sam 13:21 Sam 13:51 Sam 14:311 Sam 14:51 Sam 17:22Josh 7:2Judg 18:21Neh 11:31

Isaiah 10:29²⁹They went through the pass, spent the night at Geba. Ramah trembled, Gibeah of Saul ran away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 13:231 Sam 7:171 Sam 11:4Jer 31:15Josh 21:171 Kgs 15:231 Sam 13:161 Sam 13:21 Sam 14:41 Sam 15:34

Isaiah 10:30³⁰Shout out, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:44Jer 1:1Josh 21:181 Kgs 2:26Jer 32:8Judg 18:29Judg 18:7

Isaiah 10:31³¹Madmenah flees, the residents of Gebim have hidden.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 15:31

Isaiah 10:32³²This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion’s mountain — at the hill of Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 21:11 Sam 22:19Isa 19:16Isa 37:22Zech 2:9Isa 1:8Isa 10:24Isa 11:15Isa 13:2Isa 2:2

Isaiah 10:33³³Look, the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power. The tallest trees will be cut down, the loftiest ones will be brought low.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 2:9Dan 4:37Isa 37:382 Chr 32:212 Kgs 19:21-37Isa 10:16-19Isa 2:11-17Isa 37:24-36Job 40:11-12Luke 14:11

Isaiah 10:34³⁴The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:242 Pet 2:112 Thess 1:7Dan 4:13-14Dan 4:23Isa 10:18Isa 31:8Isa 37:36Jer 22:7Jer 46:22-23