Isaiah 10:20-34

Common English Bible

A few will return

²⁰On that day, what’s left of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who beat them. Instead, they will faithfully depend on the Lord, the holy one of Israel. ²¹A few will return, what’s left of Jacob, to the mighty God. ²²Although your people, Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a few survivors will return. The end is announced, overflowing with justice. ²³Yes, destruction has been announced; the Lord God of heavenly forces will carry it out against the entire land.

²⁴Therefore, the Lord God of heavenly forces says: My people who live in Zion, don’t fear Assyria, which strikes you with the rod and raises its staff against you as Egypt did. ²⁵In a very short time my fury will end, and my anger at the world will be finished.^[a]

²⁶Therefore, the Lord of heavenly forces will crack a whip against Assyria,
    as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb.
    He will raise a rod over the sea,
        as he did in Egypt.
²⁷On that day, God will remove the burden from your shoulder
    and destroy the yoke on your neck.^[b]

The exalted laid low

He has gone up from Samaria,
²⁸    come against Aiath,
    passed to Migron.
At Michmash he stored his equipment.
²⁹They crossed at the pass: “We’ll camp at Geba!”
    Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰Cry aloud, Daughter Gallim!
    Listen, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!
³¹Madmenah has flown.
    Gebim’s inhabitants sought refuge.
³²This very day he will stand at Nob
    and shake his fist^[c] at Daughter Zion’s mountain,
    the hill of Jerusalem!
³³Look! The Lord God of heavenly forces
    is chopping off the branches with terrible power.
    The loftiest ones are about to be cut down
        and the exalted laid low.
³⁴He will strike down the forest thickets with an ax,
    and mighty Lebanon will fall.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 10:25 Heb uncertain
Isaiah 10:27 Or and his yoke from your neck, and a yoke will be destroyed because of fatness
Isaiah 10:32 Or wave his hand