Isaiah 10

¹ Woe to the statute makers of lawless statutes! And writings iniquitous they write, ² to turn the poor aside from adjudication, and to pillage in judgment the humble of My people, for widows to become their loot, and orphans are they plundering. ³ Yet what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the tumult which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and whither will you leave your glory? ⁴ Barring one bows under a prisoner, or under the killed, they shall fall. And in all this His anger does not reverse, and His hand is outstretched still! ⁵ Woe, Assyria! Club of My anger! And a rod! He, in their hand, is My menace! ⁶ Among a nation polluted will I send him. And against a people, object of My rage, will I instruct him. To loot loot and to plunder plunder, and to place them for tramping, as the clay of the streets. ⁷ Yet he, not so is he planning, and his heart, not so is devising, for to exterminate is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few. ⁸ For saying is he, Are not my chiefs altogether kings? ⁹ Is not, as Carchemish, Calno? Should not, as Arphad, be Hamath? Should not, as Damascus, be Samaria? ¹⁰ As my hand found all the kingdoms of the forbidden idols, and their carvings, more than Jerusalem's and than Samaria's, ¹¹ shall I not, as I did to Samaria and to her forbidden idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her grief fetishes? ¹² Yet it comes, when Yahweh will clip off all His doings in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will visit evil on the fruit of the insolent heart of the king of Assyria, and the high beauty of his eyes. ¹³ For, says he, By the vigor of my hand I did it, and by my wisdom, for understanding have I. And I am taking away the boundaries of the peoples, and their equipment I rob. And I am bringing down, as a sturdy one, their dwellers, ¹⁴ and my hand is finding, as a nest, the estate of the peoples, and, as one gathers forsaken eggs, the entire earth do I gather. And no one comes to be ruffling a wing, or opening wide the mouth and chirping. ¹⁵ Will the axe beautify itself over the one hewing with it? Should the chief's mace magnify itself over the one waving it? As if a club is also waving the one raising it! As if a rod is raising one who is not wood! ¹⁶ Wherefore, the Lord Yahweh of hosts will send upon his stout ones leanness. And under his glory will glow a glowing as the glowing of fire. ¹⁷ And the Light of Israel will come to be a fire, and his Holy One to be a blaze, and it consumes and devours his spines and his buckthorns in one day, ¹⁸ and quenched is the glory of his wildwood, and his crop land. From the soul and unto the flesh, will He finish. And it comes to be as a fleeing when fleeing from a consuming blaze. ¹⁹ And the remainder of the trees of his wildwood will be a number that a lad will list them. ²⁰ And it comes in that day, not continue further will the remnant of Israel, and the delivered of the house of Jacob, to lean on their smiter. Yet they will lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ²¹ A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob, to El, the Master. ²² For, should the people of Israel come to be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved among them. The conclusion decided shall be overflowing with righteousness, ²³ for a conclusive and decisive accounting will my Lord Yahweh of hosts make within the entire land. ²⁴ Wherefore thus says my Lord, Yahweh of hosts: You must not fear, My people, dwellers of Zion, because Assyria with a club is smiting you, and his rod is he lifting over you, in the way of Egypt. ²⁵ For still a little bit and the menace will be concluded, and My anger over their strategy. ²⁶ And Yahweh of hosts will brandish a whip over him, as the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, and His rod will be over the sea, and He will lift it up in the way of Egypt. ²⁷ And it comes in that day, He will withdraw his burden off your back, and his yoke off your neck, and the yoke will rot in view of the stoutness. ²⁸ He comes over the city of Aiath! He passes in Migron! At Michmash he is checking over his gear. ²⁹ They pass in the passage! At Geba is he lodging! Ramah trembles for us. Gibeah of Saul flees! ³⁰ Shrill your voice, daughter of Gallim! Attend, Laish! Respond, Anathoth! ³¹ Madmenah flits! Dwellers of Gebim strengthen their stand. ³² Still today in Nob is he to stand! He is waving his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, and at the hills of Jerusalem. ³³ Behold the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, forking the foliage with terror! And the high in altitude is He hacking, and the lofty are being abased. ³⁴ And he fells the thickets of the wildwood with iron. The high are falling by the sword, and Lebanon is falling by a noble.