Isaiah 10 (NET)

Isaiah 10:1¹Beware, those who enact unjust policies; those who are always instituting unfair regulations,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

Isaiah 10:8⁸Indeed, he says: ‘Are not my officials all kings?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 10:9⁹Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

Isaiah 10:21²¹A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

Isaiah 10:25²⁵For very soon my fury will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

Isaiah 10:28²⁸They attacked Aiath, moved through Migron, depositing their supplies at Micmash.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 Versions

Isaiah 10:30³⁰Shout out, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 10:31³¹Madmenah flees, the residents of Gebim have hidden.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions

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 Versions