Isaiah 10 : 1 (NLT)
What sorrow awaits the unjust judges and those who issue unfair laws.
Isaiah 10 : 2 (NLT)
They deprive the poor of justice and deny the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and take advantage of orphans.
Isaiah 10 : 3 (NLT)
What will you do when I punish you, when I send disaster upon you from a distant land? To whom will you turn for help? Where will your treasures be safe?
Isaiah 10 : 4 (NLT)
You will stumble along as prisoners or lie among the dead. But even then the LORD's anger will not be satisfied. His fist is still poised to strike.
Isaiah 10 : 5 (NLT)
"What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger. I use it as a club to express my anger.
Isaiah 10 : 6 (NLT)
I am sending Assyria against a godless nation, against a people with whom I am angry. Assyria will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
Isaiah 10 : 7 (NLT)
But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool; his mind does not work that way. His plan is simply to destroy, to cut down nation after nation.
Isaiah 10 : 8 (NLT)
He will say, 'Each of my princes will soon be a king.
Isaiah 10 : 9 (NLT)
We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath fell before us as Arpad did. And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.
Isaiah 10 : 10 (NLT)
Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.
Isaiah 10 : 11 (NLT)
So we will defeat Jerusalem and her gods, just as we destroyed Samaria with hers.'"
Isaiah 10 : 12 (NLT)
After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him-- for he is proud and arrogant.
Isaiah 10 : 13 (NLT)
He boasts, "By my own powerful arm I have done this. With my own shrewd wisdom I planned it. I have broken down the defenses of nations and carried off their treasures. I have knocked down their kings like a bull.
Isaiah 10 : 14 (NLT)
I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers eggs. No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest."
Isaiah 10 : 15 (NLT)
But can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it? Is the saw greater than the person who saws? Can a rod strike unless a hand moves it? Can a wooden cane walk by itself?
Isaiah 10 : 16 (NLT)
Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, will send a plague among Assyria's proud troops, and a flaming fire will consume its glory.
Isaiah 10 : 17 (NLT)
The LORD, the Light of Israel, will be a fire; the Holy One will be a flame. He will devour the thorns and briers with fire, burning up the enemy in a single night.
Isaiah 10 : 18 (NLT)
The LORD will consume Assyria's glory like a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land; it will waste away like sick people in a plague.
Isaiah 10 : 19 (NLT)
Of all that glorious forest, only a few trees will survive-- so few that a child could count them!
Isaiah 10 : 20 (NLT)
In that day the remnant left in Israel, the survivors in the house of Jacob, will no longer depend on allies who seek to destroy them. But they will faithfully trust the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 10 : 21 (NLT)
A remnant will return; yes, the remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.
Isaiah 10 : 22 (NLT)
But though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore, only a remnant of them will return. The LORD has rightly decided to destroy his people.
Isaiah 10 : 23 (NLT)
Yes, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, has already decided to destroy the entire land.
Isaiah 10 : 24 (NLT)
So this is what the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, says: "O my people in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they oppress you with rod and club as the Egyptians did long ago.
Isaiah 10 : 25 (NLT)
In a little while my anger against you will end, and then my anger will rise up to destroy them."
Isaiah 10 : 26 (NLT)
The LORD of Heaven's Armies will lash them with his whip, as he did when Gideon triumphed over the Midianites at the rock of Oreb, or when the LORD's staff was raised to drown the Egyptian army in the sea.
Isaiah 10 : 27 (NLT)
In that day the LORD will end the bondage of his people. He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders.
Isaiah 10 : 28 (NLT)
Look, the Assyrians are now at Aiath. They are passing through Migron and are storing their equipment at Micmash.
Isaiah 10 : 29 (NLT)
They are crossing the pass and are camping at Geba. Fear strikes the town of Ramah. All the people of Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, are running for their lives.
Isaiah 10 : 30 (NLT)
Scream in terror, you people of Gallim! Shout out a warning to Laishah. Oh, poor Anathoth!
Isaiah 10 : 31 (NLT)
There go the people of Madmenah, all fleeing. The citizens of Gebim are trying to hide.
Isaiah 10 : 32 (NLT)
The enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day. He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10 : 33 (NLT)
But look! The Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, will chop down the mighty tree of Assyria with great power! He will cut down the proud. That lofty tree will be brought down.
Isaiah 10 : 34 (NLT)
He will cut down the forest trees with an ax. Lebanon will fall to the Mighty One.
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