Isaiah 10:12-27

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¹²^(A)When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, ^(B)he^[a] will punish the speech^[b] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. ¹³^(C)For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
    and plunder their treasures;
    like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
¹⁴My hand has found like a nest
    the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened the mouth or chirped.”

¹⁵Shall ^(D)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
    or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
    or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
¹⁶Therefore the Lord God of hosts
    will send wasting sickness among his ^(E)stout warriors,
and under his glory ^(F)a burning will be kindled,
    like the burning of fire.
¹⁷^(G)The light of Israel will become a fire,
    and ^(H)his Holy One a flame,
and ^(I)it will burn and devour
    his thorns and briers ^(J)in one day.
¹⁸The glory of ^(K)his forest and of his ^(L)fruitful land
    the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
    and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
    that a child can write them down.

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

²⁰^(M)In that day ^(N)the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more ^(O)lean on him who struck them, but ^(P)will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ²¹A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, ^(Q)to the mighty God. ²²^(R)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, ^(S)only a remnant of them will return. ^(T)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. ²³For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

²⁴Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people, ^(U)who dwell in Zion, ^(V)be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as ^(W)the Egyptians did. ²⁵For ^(X)in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction. ²⁶And ^(Y)the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck ^(Z)Midian ^(AA)at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it ^(AB)as he did in Egypt. ²⁷And in that day ^(AC)his burden will depart from your shoulder, and ^(AD)his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”^[c]

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Footnotes

Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew I
Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew fruit
Isaiah 10:27 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Isaiah 10:33-34

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³³Behold, the Lord God of hosts
    ^(A)will lop ^(B)the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
    and the lofty will be brought low.
³⁴He will cut down ^(C)the thickets of the forest with an axe,
    and ^(D)Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.