Isaiah 10:12-19 - Judgment On Assyria
12 But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I
and wisdom, for I am clever.
I abolished the borders of nations
and plundered their treasures;
like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.
to seize the wealth of the nations.
Like one gathering abandoned eggs,
I gathered the whole earth.
No wing fluttered;
no beak opened or chirped.
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above the one who chops with it?
Does a saw magnify itself
above the one who saws with it?
It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts
It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn’t wood!
will inflict an emaciating disease
on the well-fed of Assyria,
and He will kindle a burning fire
under its glory.
and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
the glory of its forests and orchards
as a sickness consumes a person.
will be so few in number
that a child could count them.