Isaiah 10

1 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

5 “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
6 I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
8 ‘Are not my commanders all kings?’ he says.
9 ‘Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11 shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’ ”
12 When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
13 For he says: “ ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued[a] their kings.
14 As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’ ”
15 Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood!
16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors; under his pomp a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame.
17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.
18 The splendor of his forests and fertile fields it will completely destroy, as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.

The Remnant of Israel

20 In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
21 A remnant will return,[b] a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.
22 Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.
23 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.
24 Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
25 Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction.”
26 The LORD Almighty will lash them with a whip, as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt.
27 In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.[c]
28 They enter Aiath; they pass through Migron; they store supplies at Mikmash.
29 They go over the pass, and say, “We will camp overnight at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
30 Cry out, Daughter Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah is in flight; the people of Gebim take cover.
32 This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.
34 He will cut down the forest thickets with an ax; Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

Cross References 107

  • 1. S Isaiah 5:8
  • 2. S Psalms 58:2
  • 3. Isaiah 3:14
  • 4. S Isaiah 5:23
  • 5. S Deuteronomy 10:18; S Job 6:27; S Isaiah 1:17
  • 6. S Job 31:14; Hosea 9:7
  • 7. ver 25; Psalms 59:5; Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 47:11; Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 9:9; Jeremiah 50:15; Luke 19:44
  • 8. S Psalms 108:12; Isaiah 20:6; Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 31:3
  • 9. Isaiah 24:22; Zechariah 9:11
  • 10. Isaiah 22:2; Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 66:16; Jeremiah 39:6; Nahum 3:3
  • 11. S Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 12:1; Isaiah 63:10; Isaiah 64:5; Jeremiah 4:8; Jeremiah 30:24; Lamentations 1:12
  • 12. S 2 Kings 19:21; S Isaiah 28:1
  • 13. ver 12,18; S Isaiah 7:20; Isaiah 14:25; Isaiah 31:8; Isaiah 37:7; Zephaniah 2:13
  • 14. Isaiah 14:5; Isaiah 54:16
  • 15. ver 15,24; Isaiah 30:31; Isaiah 41:15; Isaiah 45:1; Jeremiah 50:23; Jeremiah 51:20
  • 16. Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 13:3,5,13; Isaiah 26:20; Isaiah 30:30; Isaiah 34:2; Isaiah 63:6; Isaiah 66:14; Ezekiel 30:24-25
  • 17. S Isaiah 9:17
  • 18. Habakkuk 1:12
  • 19. S 2 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 9:19
  • 20. S Judges 6:4; S Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 8:1
  • 21. S 2 Samuel 22:43; S Psalms 7:5; S Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 37:26-27
  • 22. S Genesis 50:20; Acts 4:23-28
  • 23. 2 Kings 18:24
  • 24. S Genesis 10:10
  • 25. S 2 Chronicles 35:20
  • 26. Numbers 34:8; 2 Chronicles 8:4; Isaiah 11:11
  • 27. 2 Kings 18:34
  • 28. 2 Kings 17:6
  • 29. S Genesis 14:15; 2 Kings 16:9; Jeremiah 49:24
  • 30. 2 Kings 19:18
  • 31. S 2 Kings 19:13; S Isaiah 2:8; Isaiah 36:18-20; Isaiah 37:10-13
  • 32. Isaiah 28:21-22; Isaiah 65:7; Isaiah 66:4; Jeremiah 5:29
  • 33. 2 Kings 19:31
  • 34. S ver 5; S 2 Kings 19:7; Isaiah 30:31-33; Isaiah 37:36-38; Jeremiah 50:18
  • 35. S Isaiah 2:11; S Ezekiel 28:17
  • 36. Psalms 18:27
  • 37. S Deuteronomy 8:17
  • 38. S Deuteronomy 32:26-27; Isaiah 47:7; Isaiah 37:24; Daniel 4:30
  • 39. Ezekiel 28:4
  • 40. Isaiah 14:13-14
  • 41. Jeremiah 49:16; Obadiah 1:4; Habakkuk 2:6-11
  • 42. S Job 31:25
  • 43. Isaiah 14:6
  • 44. 2 Kings 19:22-24; Isaiah 37:24-25
  • 45. S Isaiah 7:20; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 9:20-21
  • 46. S ver 5
  • 47. ver 18; S Numbers 11:33; Isaiah 17:4
  • 48. Psalms 78:31
  • 49. S Isaiah 8:7
  • 50. Jeremiah 21:14
  • 51. S Job 41:21; S Isaiah 1:31; Isaiah 31:9; Zechariah 2:5
  • 52. Isaiah 37:23
  • 53. S Numbers 11:1-3; S 2 Samuel 23:6
  • 54. S Isaiah 9:18
  • 55. S 2 Kings 19:23
  • 56. S ver 5
  • 57. ver 33-34; Isaiah 32:19
  • 58. Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 21:17; Isaiah 27:13; Jeremiah 44:28
  • 59. ver 27; Isaiah 11:10,11; Isaiah 12:1,4; Isaiah 19:18,19; Isaiah 24:21; Isaiah 28:5; Isaiah 52:6; Zechariah 9:16
  • 60. S Isaiah 1:9; Ezekiel 7:16
  • 61. S 2 Kings 16:7
  • 62. 2 Chronicles 28:20
  • 63. 2 Chronicles 14:11; Micah 7:7">Isa 1Micah 7:7; Isaiah 48:2; Isaiah 50:10; Jeremiah 21:2; Hosea 3:5; Hosea 6:1; Micah 3:11; Micah 7:7
  • 64. S Isaiah 5:24
  • 65. S Genesis 45:7; Isaiah 6:13; Zephaniah 3:13
  • 66. Isaiah 7:3
  • 67. S Isaiah 9:6
  • 68. S Genesis 12:2; Isaiah 48:19; Jeremiah 33:22
  • 69. Ezra 1:4; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 46:3; Romans 9:27-28
  • 70. ver 23; Isaiah 28:22; Jeremiah 40:2; Daniel 9:27
  • 71. S ver 22
  • 72. Isaiah 6:12; Isaiah 28:22; Romans 9:27-28*
  • 73. Psalms 87:5-6
  • 74. S Isaiah 7:4
  • 75. S Exodus 5:14
  • 76. S ver 5
  • 77. Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 29:17; Haggai 2:6
  • 78. ver 5; Psalms 30:5; Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 24:21; Isaiah 26:20; Isaiah 30:30; Isaiah 34:2; Isaiah 66:14; Daniel 8:19; Daniel 11:36
  • 79. S ver 3; Micah 5:6
  • 80. Isaiah 37:36-38
  • 81. S Isaiah 9:4
  • 82. Isaiah 30:32
  • 83. S Exodus 14:16
  • 84. S ver 20
  • 85. S Psalms 66:11
  • 86. S Leviticus 26:13; S Isaiah 9:4
  • 87. Isaiah 14:25; Isaiah 47:6; Isaiah 52:2
  • 88. Jeremiah 30:8
  • 89. S 1 Samuel 14:2
  • 90. S Joshua 1:11
  • 91. 1 Samuel 13:2
  • 92. S Joshua 18:24; S Nehemiah 11:31
  • 93. S Joshua 18:25
  • 94. S Judges 19:14
  • 95. Isaiah 15:5
  • 96. 1 Samuel 25:44
  • 97. S Nehemiah 11:32
  • 98. S 1 Samuel 21:1
  • 99. S Job 15:25
  • 100. S Psalms 9:14; Isaiah 16:1; Jeremiah 6:23
  • 101. Isaiah 18:5; Isaiah 27:11; Ezekiel 17:4
  • 102. S Exodus 12:12
  • 103. Isaiah 2:13; Amos 2:9
  • 104. Isaiah 5:15
  • 105. Nahum 1:12; Zechariah 11:2
  • 106. S 2 Kings 19:23
  • 107. S Genesis 49:24; Psalms 93:4; Isaiah 33:21

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or "treasures;" / "I subdued the mighty,"
  • [b]. Hebrew "shear-jashub" (see 7:3 and note); also in verse 22
  • [c]. Hebrew; Septuagint "broken" / "from your shoulders"

Isaiah 10 Commentaries

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