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Isaiah 10:6
New English Translation
Isaiah 10:6
New English Translation
6 I sent him[a] against a godless[b] nation,
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry,[c]
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down[d] like dirt in the streets.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 10:6 sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).
- Isaiah 10:6 tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”
- Isaiah 10:6 tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”
- Isaiah 10:6 tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”
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