Isaiah 9:18-10:4

New King James Version

¹⁸For wickedness ^(A)burns as the fire;
It shall devour the briers and thorns,
And kindle in the thickets of the forest;
They shall mount up like rising smoke.
¹⁹Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
^(B)The land is burned up,
And the people shall be as fuel for the fire;
^(C)No man shall spare his brother.
²⁰And he shall ^[a]snatch on the right hand
And be hungry;
He shall devour on the left hand
^(D)And not be satisfied;
^(E)Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.
²¹Manasseh shall devour Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh;
Together they shall be ^(F)against Judah.

^(G)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.

Assyria Shall Be Broken

10 “Woe to those who ^(H)decree unrighteous decrees,
Who write misfortune,
Which they have prescribed
²To rob the needy of justice,
And to take what is right from the poor of My people,
That widows may be their prey,
And that they may rob the fatherless.
³^(I)What will you do in ^(J)the day of punishment,
And in the desolation which will come from ^(K)afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your glory?
⁴Without Me they shall bow down among the ^(L)prisoners,
And they shall fall ^[b]among the slain.”