Isaiah 10 (DRA)

v1

Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

v2

To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

v3

What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

v4

That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

v5

Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.

v6

I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

v7

But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

v8

For he shall say:

v9

Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

v10

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.

v11

Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

v12

And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.

v13

For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high.

v14

And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.

v15

Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but wood.

v16

Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire.

v17

And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.

v18

And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through fear.

v19

And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.

v20

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

v21

The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to the mighty God.

v22

For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice.

v23

For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of all the land.

v24

Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.

v25

For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.

v26

And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.

v27

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrify at the presence of the oil.

v28

He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.

v29

They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.

v30

Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.

v31

Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage.

v32

It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.

v33

Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled.

v34

And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.

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