Isaiah 10:1-4 - Woes On The Wicked

¹ Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness, ² to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! ³ And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory? ⁴ They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

⁹ In my ears [says] LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. ¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.

¹¹ Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them! ¹² And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst. ¹⁴ Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure. And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend [into it]. ¹⁵ And the common man is bowed down, and the great man is debased, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled, ¹⁶ but LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. ¹⁷ Then the lambs shall feed as in their pasture, and wanderers shall eat the waste places of the fat ones.

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope, ¹⁹ who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it! ²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ²² Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink, ²³ who justify the wicked for rewards, and take away the justice of the righteous man from him!

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of LORD of hosts, an ²⁵ Therefore the anger of LORD is kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them. And the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all