LEB ISA Chapter 10

Woes on the Wicked

• and writers who have written harm,
• 2 the needy away from legal claims,[fn]and to rob the justice from the poor of my people,
• to make widows their spoil;
• and they plunder orphans.
  • 3 the day of punishment, and at calamity? It comes from afar!
• To whom will you flee for help,
  • and where will you leave your wealth,
  • 4  and fall under the slain[fn]
• In all of this his anger has not turned away,
  • and still his hand is stretched out.

Judgment on Assyria’s Arrogance

• 5 and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!
• 6  and I command him against the people of my wrath,
• to capture spoil
  • and to carry off plunder,
• and to make them[fn] a trampling place,
  • like the clay of the streets.
  • 7 [fn] and his heart does not plan this.
• For it is in his heart to destroy
  • and to cut off not a few nations.
• 8 Are not my commanders altogether kings?
  • 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad?
  • Is not Samaria like Damascus?

10 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols[fn]—and their images were greater than those of[fn] Jerusalem and Samaria—

11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idolswhat I have done to Samaria and her idols?”

12 And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion[fn] and Jerusalem, “I will punish thearrogance[fn] of the king of Assyria andhis haughtiness.”[fn]

• 13 For he says,“I have done it by the strength of my hand
  • and by my wisdom, for I have understanding,
• and I have removed the boundaries of peoples,
  • and I have plundered their stores,
  • and like a bull I have brought down[fn]
  • 14 a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth.
    • And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp.”
  • 15  or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro?
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  • 16  and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.
  • 17  and his holy one like a flame,
• and it will burn and devour his thorns[fn] and briers[fn] in one day.
  • 18 [fn] and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.
  • 19 [fn] of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down.

The Return of the Remnant

• 20 [fn] of the house of Jacob will not continue to lean onthe one who struck it but will lean on Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, in truth.
• 21  the remnant of Jacob—to the mighty God.
• 22  only a remnant of it will return.
• Annihilation is determined,
  • overflowing with righteousness.
  • 23 is about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth.

24 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts:“My people who live in Zion, you must not be afraid of Assyria.

• It beats you with the rod,
  • and it lifts up its staff against you[fn]
  • 25 My indignation will come to an end[fn] and my anger will be directed to their destruction.”
  • 26  as when Midian was defeated at the rock of Oreb;
• and his staff will be over the sea,
  • and he will lift him up[fn]
• 27 And this shall happen: on that day,he will remove his burden from your shoulder
  • and his yoke from your neck,
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  • 28  he has passed through Migron;
  • at Micmash he deposited his baggage.
  • 29 the pass; Geba is a place of overnight lodging for us.
• Ramah trembles;
  • Gibeah of Saul has fled.
  • 30 with your voice; Laishah, listen!
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  • 31  The inhabitants of Gebim bring themselves into safety!
• 32 [fn][fn] at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter[fn] of Zion,
  • at the hill of Jerusalem.
  • 33 the branches[fn] with great power,and[fn] will be felled,
  • and the[fn] will be brought low.
  • 34  and Lebanon will fall by the mighty one.