Isaiah 10
About Isaiah Isaiah warns of judgment and promises comfort, a coming king, a suffering servant and a new creation.
1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;SelectedIsaiah 10:1Ask
2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!SelectedIsaiah 10:2Ask
3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?SelectedIsaiah 10:3Ask
4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.SelectedIsaiah 10:4Ask
5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.SelectedIsaiah 10:5Ask
6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.SelectedIsaiah 10:6Ask
7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.SelectedIsaiah 10:7Ask
8For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?SelectedIsaiah 10:8Ask
9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?SelectedIsaiah 10:9Ask
10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;SelectedIsaiah 10:10Ask
11Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?SelectedIsaiah 10:11Ask
12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.SelectedIsaiah 10:12Ask
13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:SelectedIsaiah 10:13Ask
14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.SelectedIsaiah 10:14Ask
15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.SelectedIsaiah 10:15Ask
16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.SelectedIsaiah 10:16Ask
17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;SelectedIsaiah 10:17Ask
18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.SelectedIsaiah 10:18Ask
19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.SelectedIsaiah 10:19Ask
20And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.SelectedIsaiah 10:20Ask
21The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.SelectedIsaiah 10:21Ask
22For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.SelectedIsaiah 10:22Ask
23For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.SelectedIsaiah 10:23Ask
24Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.SelectedIsaiah 10:24Ask
25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.SelectedIsaiah 10:25Ask
26And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.SelectedIsaiah 10:26Ask
27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.SelectedIsaiah 10:27Ask
28He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:SelectedIsaiah 10:28Ask
29They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.SelectedIsaiah 10:29Ask
30Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.SelectedIsaiah 10:30Ask
31Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.SelectedIsaiah 10:31Ask
32As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.SelectedIsaiah 10:32Ask
33Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.SelectedIsaiah 10:33Ask
34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.SelectedIsaiah 10:34Ask
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