Isaiah 10:17-34

New King James Version

¹⁷So the Light of Israel will be for a fire,
And his Holy One for a flame;
^(A)It will burn and devour
His thorns and his briers in one day.
¹⁸And it will consume the glory of his forest and of ^(B)his fruitful field,
Both soul and body;
And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.
¹⁹Then the rest of the trees of his forest
Will be so few in number
That a child may write them.

The Returning Remnant of Israel

²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day
That the remnant of Israel,
And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob,
^(C)Will never again depend on him who ^[a]defeated them,
But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
²¹The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob,
To the ^(D)Mighty God.
²²^(E)For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
^(F)A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
²³^(G)For the Lord God of hosts
Will make a determined end
In the midst of all the land.

²⁴Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, ^(H)do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of ^(I)Egypt. ²⁵For yet a very little while ^(J)and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.” ²⁶And the Lord of hosts will ^[b]stir up ^(K)a scourge for him like the slaughter of ^(L)Midian at the rock of Oreb; ^(M)as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt.

²⁷It shall come to pass in that day
That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder,
And his yoke from your neck,
And the yoke will be destroyed because of ^(N)the anointing oil.

²⁸He has come to Aiath,
He has passed Migron;
At Michmash he has attended to his equipment.
²⁹They have gone ^[c]along ^(O)the ridge,
They have taken up lodging at Geba.
Ramah is afraid,
^(P)Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰^[d]Lift up your voice,
O daughter ^(Q)of Gallim!
Cause it to be heard as far as ^(R)Laish—
^[e]O poor Anathoth!
³¹^(S)Madmenah has fled,
The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.
³²As yet he will remain ^(T)at Nob that day;
He will ^(U)shake his fist at the mount of ^(V)the daughter of Zion,
The hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, the Lord,
The Lord of hosts,
Will lop off the bough with terror;
^(W)Those of high stature will be hewn down,
And the haughty will be humbled.
³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,
And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.