Isaiah 10:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴How will you escape being captured^[a] or killed? The Lord is still angry, and he isn't through with you yet!^[b]

The Lord's Purpose and the King of Assyria

⁵^(A) The Lord says:

I am furious! And I will use the king of Assyria^[c] as a club ⁶to beat down you godless people. I am angry with you, and I will send him to attack you. He will take what he wants and walk on you like mud in the streets.

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10.4 escape being captured: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
10.4 and he … yet: Or “but he hasn't given up on you yet!”
10.5 king of Assyria: Probably King Sennacherib who invaded Israel in 701 b.c.

Isaiah 10:4-6

New International Version

⁴Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives^(A)
or fall among the slain.^(B)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,^(C)
his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

⁵“Woe^(D) to the Assyrian,^(E) the rod^(F) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club^(G) of my wrath!^(H)
⁶I send him against a godless^(I) nation,
    I dispatch^(J) him against a people who anger me,^(K)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,^(L)
    and to trample^(M) them down like mud in the streets.

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Isaiah 10:4-6

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The Lord's Purpose and the King of Assyria

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Isaiah 10:4-6

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God’s Judgment on Assyria

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God’s Judgment on Assyria

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