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

⁵ Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury. ⁶ I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to take the plunder, and to strip off the spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets. ⁷ Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations. ⁸ For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings? ⁹ Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, and their graven images more than Jerusalem's and Samaria's; ¹¹ shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her idols?

¹² And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks. ¹³ For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the people like a strong man. ¹⁴ And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none who moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

¹⁵ Shall the axe boast itself against him who chops with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wave those who lift itself up! As if a staff could raise what is not wood! ¹⁶ Therefore the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones; and under his glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and His Holy One as a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. ¹⁸ And it shall burn up the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick one faints. ¹⁹ And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a boy might write them.