noyes - Isaiah:10:5-16

noyes@Isaiah:10:5 @ Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, The staff in whose hands is the instrument of my indignation!

noyes@Isaiah:10:6 @ Against an impious nation I will send him, And against a people under my wrath I will give him a charge To gather the spoil, and seize the prey, And to trample them under foot like the mire of the streets.

noyes@Isaiah:10:7 @ But he doth not so purpose, And his heart doth not so intend; But to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off a multitude of nations.

noyes@Isaiah:10:8 @ For he saith, "Are not my princes altogether kings?

noyes@Isaiah:10:9 @ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

noyes@Isaiah:10:10 @ As my hand hath seized the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

noyes@Isaiah:10:11 @ Behold! as I have done to Samaria and her idols, So will I do to Jerusalem and her images."

noyes@Isaiah:10:12 @ But when the Lord hath accomplished his whole work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem, Then will he punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, And the arrogance of his lofty eyes.

noyes@Isaiah:10:13 @ For he hath said: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom; for I am wise; I have removed the bounds of nations, I have plundered their treasures; As a hero have I brought down them that sat upon thrones.

noyes@Isaiah:10:14 @ The riches of the nations hath my hand seized, as a nest; As one gathereth eggs that have been left, So have I gathered the whole world. And there was none that moved the wing, Or that opened the beak, or that chirped."

noyes@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? As if the rod should wield him that lifteth it! As if the staff should lift up him that is not wood!

noyes@Isaiah:10:16 @ Wherefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send upon his fat ones leanness, And under his glory shall he kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire.