Isaiah:10

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* Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees , and to the scribes [who ] write toil ; * to turn aside the needy from judgment , and to steal the right from the poor of My people , that widows may be their prey , and they rob the orphans ! * And what will you do in the day of judgment and in destruction , of ruin when ] it comes from afar ? To whom will you flee for help ? And where will you leave your glory ? * Surely they shall bow down under the prisoners , and they shall fall under the slain . In all this His hand is not turned away , but His hand [is ] stretched out still . * Woe to Assyria , the rod of My anger ! And the staff in their hand is My fury . * I will send him against an ungodly nation , and against the people of My wrath . I will command him to take the plunder , and to strip off the spoil , and to trample them like the mud of the streets . * Yet he does not plan this , nor does his heart think so . For [it is ] in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations . * For he says , [Are ] not my commanders all like kings ? * [Is ] not Calno like Carchemish ? [Is ] not Hamath like Arpad ? [Is ] not Samaria like Damascus ? * As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols , and their graven images [more than ] Jerusalem 's and Samaria 's ; * shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her idols ? * And it will be , when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem , I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks . * For he says , By the strength of my hand I have done [it ], and by my wisdom ; for I am wise . And I have removed the bounds of the people , and have robbed their treasures , and I have put down the people like a strong man . * And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people ; and as one gathers eggs [that are ] left , I have gathered all the earth ; and there was none who moved the wing , or opened the mouth , or peeped . * Shall the axe boast itself against him who chops with it ? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who moves it ? As [if ] the rod [could ] wave those who lift [itself ] up ! As [if ] a staff could raise [what is ] not wood ! * Therefore the Lord , Jehovah of hosts , shall send leanness among his fat ones ; and under his glory [He ] shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire . * And the light of Israel shall be as a fire , and His holy One as a flame ; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day . * And it shall burn up the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field , both soul and body ; and they shall be as when a sick one faints . * And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few , so that a boy might write them . * And it shall be in that day , the remnant of Israel , and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob , shall never again lean on him who struck them ; but truly lean on Jehovah , the Holy One of Israel . * The remnant shall return , the remnant of Jacob , to the mighty God . * For though Your people Israel are like the sand of the sea , [yet ] a remnant of them shall return ; the full end which is decreed shall overflow [with ] righteousness . * For the Lord Jehovah of hosts shall make a full end , as ordained , in the midst of all the land . * Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah of hosts , O my people who dwell [in ] Zion , do not fear Assyria . He shall strike you with a rod , and shall lift up his staff against you , in the way of Egypt . * But yet a little while , and the fury shall cease , and My anger [shall be ] in their ruin . * And Jehovah of hosts shall stir up a whip on him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb ; and [as ] His rod was on the sea , so shall He lift it up in the way of Egypt . * And it shall be , in that day his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder , and his yoke from off your neck , and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing . * He has come to Aiath , he has passed to Migron ; at Michmash he has stored his baggage ; * they have gone over the passage ; they have bedded down at Geba ; Ramah is afraid , Gibeah of Saul has fled . * Lift up your voice , daughter of heaps ; shriek with your voice ; bow Laish , afflicted of Anathoth . * Madmenah wanders ; the people of Gebim take refuge . * Yet [he ] shall remain in Nob today ; [he ] shall shake his hand [against ] the mount of the daughter of Zion , the hill of Jerusalem . * Behold , the Lord , Jehovah of hosts , shall lop the bough with terror ; and the lofty ones [shall be ] cut down , and the proud shall be humbled . * And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron , and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one .

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