Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 10:5-17

5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

7But this is not his intention;this is not his plan.For it is in his heart to destroyand cut off many nations.8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.9“Is not Calno like Carchemish?Is not Hamath like Arpad?Is not Samaria like Damascus?10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdomswhose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,11and as I have done to Samaria and its idols,will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes. 13For he says:

‘By the strength of my hand I have done this,and by my wisdom, for I am clever.I have removed the boundaries of nationsand plundered their treasures;like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.14My hand reached as into a nestto seize the wealth of the nations.Like one gathering abandoned eggs,I gathered all the earth.No wing fluttered,no beak opened or chirped.’”

15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it?Does a saw boast over him who saws with it?It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it,or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting diseaseamong Assyria’s stout warriors,and under his pomp will be kindleda fire like a burning flame.17And the Light of Israel will become a fire,and its Holy One a flame.In a single day it will burn and devourAssyria’s thorns and thistles.

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