Assyria Is God’s Instrument
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For it says, “Are not my princes (k)all kings?
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10 “As my hand has reached to the (X)kingdoms of the idols,
Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
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Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
12 So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His (Z)work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will (m)punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and (AA)the pomp of (n)his haughtiness.”
13 For (AB)he has said,
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And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a (AD)nest,
And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;
And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”
And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;
And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”
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And He will (AO)destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body,
And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
19 And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
And the (AP)rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number
That a child could write them down.
That a child could write them down.
A Remnant Will Return
20 Now in that day the (AQ)remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob (AR)who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly (AS)rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
23 For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, (AX)the Lord (r)God of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord (s)God of hosts, “O My people who dwell in (AY)Zion, (AZ)do not fear the Assyrian (t)who (BA)strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.
25 For in a very (BB)little while (BC)My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction.”
26 The Lord of hosts will (BD)arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of (BE)Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His (BF)staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up (BG)the way He did in Egypt.
27 So it will be in that day, that (u)his (BH)burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because (BI)of fatness.
Footnotes:
a.
Isaiah 10:1: ['Lit ', mischief, ' or ', misfortune]
b.
Isaiah 10:2: ['Lit ', turn aside from]
c.
Isaiah 10:2: ['Or ', fatherless]
d.
Isaiah 10:3: ['Lit ', glory]
e.
Isaiah 10:4: ['Lit ', under]
f.
Isaiah 10:4: ['Lit ', under]
g.
Isaiah 10:6: ['Lit ', make them a trampled place]
h.
Isaiah 10:7: ['Lit ', its heart so plan]
i.
Isaiah 10:7: ['Lit ', in its heart]
j.
Isaiah 10:7: ['Lit ', not a few]
k.
Isaiah 10:8: ['Lit ', altogether]
l.
Isaiah 10:11: ['Lit ', do thus]
m.
Isaiah 10:12: ['Lit ', visit]
n.
Isaiah 10:12: ['Lit ', haughtiness of his eyes]
o.
Isaiah 10:13: ['Or ', those who sit, ' on thrones']
p.
Isaiah 10:15: ['Lit ', staff]
q.
Isaiah 10:16: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord]
r.
Isaiah 10:23: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord]
s.
Isaiah 10:24: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord]
t.
Isaiah 10:24: ['Lit ', he]
u.
Isaiah 10:27: ['I.e. the Assyrian']
v.
Isaiah 10:30: ['An ancient version reads ', Answer her, O Anathoth]
w.
Isaiah 10:32: ['Another reading is ', house of]
x.
Isaiah 10:33: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord]
y.
Isaiah 10:34: ['Or ', as a mighty one]
Cross references:
D.
Isaiah 10:3:
Job 31:14
E.
Isaiah 10:3:
Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 26:21; Isaiah 29:6; Jeremiah 9:9; Hosea 9:7; Luke 19:44
AA.
Isaiah 10:12:
Isaiah 37:23
AG.
Isaiah 10:15:
Isaiah 10:5
AH.
Isaiah 10:15:
Isaiah 10:5
AI.
Isaiah 10:16:
Psalm 106:15
AJ.
Isaiah 10:16:
Isaiah 17:4
AM.
Isaiah 10:17:
Isaiah 37:23
AP.
Isaiah 10:19:
Isaiah 21:17
AT.
Isaiah 10:21:
Isaiah 7:3
AU.
Isaiah 10:21:
Isaiah 9:6
BF.
Isaiah 10:26:
Exodus 14:16
BG.
Isaiah 10:26:
Exodus 14:27