Book of Isaiah, Chapter 10
Chapter 10 of Isaiah
and the writers who keep writing oppression,
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil,
and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
in the storm which will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
and where will you leave your wealth?
or fall among the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away
and his hand is stretched out still.
the staff of my fury![a]
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
and his mind does not so think;
but it is in his mind to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;
“Are not my commanders all kings?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samar′ia like Damascus?
whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samar′ia,
as I have done to Samar′ia and her images?”
¶ “By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I have removed the boundaries of peoples,
and have plundered their treasures;
like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
the wealth of the peoples;
and as men gather 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.”
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!
will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors,
and under his glory a burning will be kindled,
like the burning of fire.
and his Holy One a flame;
and it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers in one day.
the LORD will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
that a child can write them down.
¶ He has gone up from Rimmon,[c]
he has passed through Migron,
at Michmash he stores his baggage;
at Geba they lodge for the night;
Ramah trembles,
Gib′e-ah of Saul has fled.
Hearken, O La′ishah!
Answer her, O An′athoth!
the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
he will shake his fist
at the mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.
will lop the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
and the lofty will be brought low.
and Lebanon with its majestic trees[d] will fall.FOOTNOTES
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