Isaiah:10:5-19

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* Woe to the Assyrians ; the rod of my wrath , and anger are in their hands . * I will send my wrath against a sinful nation , and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil , and to trample the cities , and to make them dust . * But he meant not thus , neither did he devise thus in his soul : but his mind shall change , and that to destroy nations not a few . * And if they should say to him , Thou alone art ruler ; * then shall he say , Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes , where the tower was built ? and have I not taken Arabia , and Damascus , and Samaria ? * As I have taken them , I will also take all the kingdoms : howl , ye idols in Jerusalem , and in Samaria . * For as I did to Samaria and her idols , so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols . * And it shall come to pass , when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem , that I will visit upon the (note :)Gr . great mind (:note ) proud heart , even upon the ruler of the Assyrians , and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes . * For he said , I will act in strength , and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations , and will spoil their strength . * And I will shake the inhabited cities : and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest : and I will even take them as eggs that have been left ; and there is none that shall escape me , or contradict me . * Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it ? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it , as if one should lift a rod or staff ? but it shall not be so ; * but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonour upon thine honour , and burning fire shall be kindled upon thy glory . * And the light of Israel shall be for a fire , and he shall sanctify him with burning fire , and it shall devour the wood as grass . * In that day the mountains shall be consumed , and the hills , and the forests , and fire shall devour both soul and body : and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame . * And they that are left of them shall be a small number , and a child shall write them .

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