Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!
New American Standard Bible
And the staff in whose hands is
King James Version
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
Holman Bible
the staff in their hands is My wrath.
International Standard Version
"How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands!
A Conservative Version
Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
American Standard Version
Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!
Amplified
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger [against Israel],
The staff in whose hand is My indignation and fury [against Israel’s disobedience]!
Bible in Basic English
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
Darby Translation
Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
Julia Smith Translation
Wo to Assur the rod of mine anger, and that rod in their hand, my wrath.
King James 2000
O Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hand is my indignation.
Modern King James verseion
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.
NET Bible
Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
New Heart English Bible
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation.
The Emphasized Bible
Alas! for Assyria, the rod of mine anger, - Yea, the very staff in their hand, is, my displeasure:
Webster
O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
World English Bible
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand is Mine indignation.
Themes
Agency » In executing judgments
Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Assyria » Predictions respecting » Invasion of judah by
Assyria » As a power, was » An instrument of God's vengeance
The Providence of God » The wicked made to promote the designs of
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 10:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment On Assyria's Arrogance
4 {save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain}? In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand [is] stretched out. 5 Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath! 6 I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 10:11
From that land he went out [to] Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Psalm 17:14
from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of [this] world. Their share [is] in {this life}, and you fill their stomach [with] your treasure. They are satisfied [with] children. They bequeath their excess to their children.
Psalm 125:3
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the {land} of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness.
Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' [one] will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."
Isaiah 10:15
Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against [the] one who moves it to and fro? {As if a rod should move the one who lifts it}! {As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood}!
Isaiah 13:5
[They are] coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy {the whole earth}.
Isaiah 14:5-6
Yahweh has broken [the] staff of [the] wicked, [the] scepter of rulers,
Isaiah 14:25
to break Assyria in my land, and I will trample him down on my mountains; and he shall remove his yoke from them, and he shall remove his burden from his shoulders."
Isaiah 30:30
And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, [with] a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones of hail.
Isaiah 66:14
And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall {flourish} like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known {to} his servants, and he shall curse his enemies.
Jeremiah 51:20-24
[He says], "You [are] a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.
Zephaniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry wasteland like the desert.