Isaiah 10:5-19 - Judgment On Assyria's Arrogance

⁵ Wo to Assur the rod of mine anger, and that rod in their hand, my wrath. ⁶ Against a polluted nation will I send him, and upon a people of my outpouring will I command him to spoil a spoil and to plunder a plunder, and to set them a treading down as the clay of the streets. ⁷ And he will not thus purpose, and his heart will not reckon thus; for in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not few. ⁸ For he will say, Are not my chiefs united together kings? ⁹ Is not as Carchemish, Calno? if not as Arpad, Hamath? if not as Damascus, Shomeron? ¹⁰ As my hand found for the kingdoms of nothing, and their carved images from Jerusalem and from Shomeron; ¹¹ Is it not according to what I did to Shomeron and to her nothings, thus will I do to Jerusalem and to her images?

¹² And it was when the Lord will complete all his work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will review upon the fruit of the great heart of the king of Assur and upon the glory of his eyes lifted up. ¹³ For he said, By strength of my hand I did, and by my wisdom, for I was discreet: and I will remove the bounds of the people, and their things prepared I plundered, and I will bring down as a strong one the inhabitants. ¹⁴ And my hand will find as a nest for the strength of the peoples: and as he gathering eggs left, I gathered all the land; and there was not moving the wing, and opening wide the mouth, and peeping.

¹⁵ Shall the axe vaunt itself against him hewing with it? shall the saw magnify itself against him moving it up and down? as the rod moving up and down with those lifting it up; as the lifting up of the rod not wood. ¹⁶ For this shall Jehovah, the Lord of armies send among his fatnesses leanness; and under his glory he shall burn a burning as the burning of fire. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel was for a fire, and his Holy for a flame: and he burnt and consumed his thorns, and his sharp points in one day: ¹⁸ And the glory of his forest and his Carmel, from the soul and even to the flesh, he shall finish, and it was as he fainting pined away. ¹⁹ And the remainder of the wood of his forest shall be of number, and a boy shall write them.