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so you won’t have to crouch among those in chains[a]
    or fall among the slain?

“Yet[b] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”[c]

Assyria is an Instrument of Judgment

“How terrible it will be
    for Assyria, the rod of my anger!
        The club is in their hands![d]
I’m sending my fury[e] against a godless nation,
    and I’ll command him against the people with whom I’m angry
to seize loot and snatch plunder,
    and to trample them down
        like mud in the streets.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read beneath prisoners
  2. Isaiah 10:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack Yet
  3. Isaiah 10:4 DSS MT lack ready to strike
  4. Isaiah 10:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads is their fury!
  5. Isaiah 10:6 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads sending him