Isaiah 10:1-4
World English Bible
10 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; 2 to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4 They will only bow down under the prisoners,
and will fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:1-4
International Standard Version
Judgment on Unjust Lawmakers
10 “How terrible it will be for the one[a] who enacts unjust decrees,
for those who write oppressive laws
that they have prescribed
2 to deprive the needy of justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their rights,[b]
so that widows may become their spoil
and so that they may plunder orphans![c]
3 What will you do on the day of Judgment,[d]
in the calamity that will come from far away?
To whom will you run for help,
and where will you leave your wealth,
4 so you won’t have to crouch among those in chains[e]
or fall among the slain?
“Yet[f] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”[g]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 10:1 So 1QIsaa; MT reads the ones
- Isaiah 10:2 Lit. right
- Isaiah 10:2 Or plunder the fatherless
- Isaiah 10:3 Lit. reckoning
- Isaiah 10:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read beneath prisoners
- Isaiah 10:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack Yet
- Isaiah 10:4 DSS MT lack ready to strike
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