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ULT ISA Chapter 10

◄ ISA 10 ► ║ ©

10 Woe, lawmakers of useless laws

and writers writing perverseness.

2 suppressing the rights of the needy,

and robbing the justice of the poor of my people,

making widows become plunder,

and preying on the fatherless!

3 And what will you do for the day of judgment,

and for the destruction coming from far away?

To whom will you flee for help,

and where will you leave your wealth?

4 Only, they will crouch among the prisoners,

or fall among the killed.

In all these things, his nose does not turn back,

and his hand is still stretched out.

5 Woe, Assyria, the club of my nose, and a rod

is in their hand for my fury!

6 I send him against an arrogant nation

and against the people of my wrath.

I order him to plunder the plunder and to prey on the prey,

and to trample them, trodden like mud of the streets.

7 And he does not think so,

and his heart does not consider thus,

for, to destroy is in his heart,

and to eliminate not a few nations.

8 For he says,

“Are not all my princes kings?

9 Is not Kalno like Carchemish?

Surely Hamath is not like Arpad?

Surely Samaria is not like Damascus?

10 As my hand has reached idolatrous kingdoms,

and their carved figures were greater than Jerusalem and greater than Samaria,

11 just as I did to Samaria and her vanities,

shall I not do so to Jerusalem and to her idols?”

12 And it will happen, when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem, “I shall reckon with the fruit of the magnitude of the heart of the king of Assyria and the pride of the haughtiness of his eyes.”

13 For he says:

“‘By my strength and by my hand I acted,

and it is in my wisdom, for I was discerning.

But I have removed the boundaries of the peoples,

and I have stolen their treasures,

and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants.

14 And my hand has seized, as from a nest

the wealth of the nations,

and as one gathers abandoned eggs,

I gathered all the earth,

and none was fluttering a wing

or opening a mouth or chirping.’ ”

15 Will the ax glorify itself against the one who swings it?

Will the saw praise itself over him who wields it?

As a rod could wield those who raise it!

As a club could lift up what is not wood!

16 Therefore, the Lord Yahweh of hosts

will send thinness among his fattened ones

and instead of his glory, a burning will rage,

like the burning of fire.

17 And the light of Israel will become a fire,

and his Holy One a flame,

and it will burn and devour

his thorns and his briers in one day.

18 And the glory of his forest and his fruitful land,

he will consume from spirit and to flesh,

and it will be like the wasting away of the frail.

19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest will be a number

that a child could count.

20 And it will happen on that day, the remnant of Israel and the refugees of the house of Jacob will not continue anymore to rely on its afflicter, but will indeed rely on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel. 21 A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. 22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the seashore, a remnant of it will return. Decreed destruction flows down, righteousness. 23 For it is finished and decreed: the Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to carry it out throughout all the land.

24 Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts, “My people who live in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian. He will strike you with the rod and raise his staff against you in the way of Egypt 25 for just a very little time; then the fury and my nose will end on account of their destruction.”

26 And Yahweh of hosts will wield a whip against it, as the smiting of Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up in the way of Egypt. 27 And it will happen on that day,

his burden will be lifted from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck,

and the yoke will be destroyed from the face of fatness. [fn]

28 He has come to Aiath,

passed through Migron;

at Michmash he stores his provisions.

29 They have crossed over the pass;

Geba is his lodging.

Ramah trembles,

Gibeah of Saul flees.

30 Lift up your voice, daughter of Gallim!

Give attention, Laishah, poor of Anathoth!

31 Madmenah flees,

the inhabitants of Gebim take refuge.

32 Yet, today he will stand at Nob

wave his hand

against the mountain of the daughter of Zion,

the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord Yahweh of hosts

will cut off the foliage with a crash,

and the tallest of the tall will be cut down,

and the lofty will be brought low.

34 And he will chop down the thickets of the forest with an ax,

and Lebanon will fall with force.

The last line of this verse is difficult because it does not seem to fit the context. Some modern versions leave out from the face of fatness.