en-v0.1→en-v0.2-dev·#196c8d5f07bdContribute to en-v0.2

Isaiah 10:5-34 — God's Judgment on Assyria

Isa.10.5-34

⁵Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hand is my indignation! ⁶I will send him against a godless nation, and against the people of my wrath I will command him, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like the clay of the streets. ⁷But he does not intend this, and his heart does not think so; rather, it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off many nations. ⁸For he says: 'Are not my commanders all kings? ⁹Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? ¹⁰As my hand has reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, ¹¹shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?' ¹²So it will happen that when the Lord has completed all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the boastful pride of his eyes. ¹³For he says: 'By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I have brought down their inhabitants. ¹⁴My hand has reached into the wealth of the peoples as into a nest, and as one gathers abandoned eggs, I have gathered all the earth; and there was no one who fluttered a wing, or opened a beak, or chirped.' ¹⁵Shall the axe boast over the one who hews with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself over the one who wields it? It would be like a rod wielding those who lift it, or like a staff lifting up the one who is not wood! ¹⁶Therefore the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of a fire. ¹⁷The Light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in a single day. ¹⁸The glory of his forest and of his fruitful orchard, both soul and body, it will completely consume; and it will be as when a sick man wastes away. ¹⁹The remaining trees of his forest will be so few in number that a child could write them down. ²⁰On that day, the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them, but they will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ²¹A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God. ²²For though your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. ²³For the Lord YHWH of Hosts will carry out the decreed destruction in the midst of the whole land. ²⁴Therefore this is what the Lord YHWH of Hosts says: 'O my people who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, though he strikes you with the rod and lifts his staff against you as Egypt did. ²⁵For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.' ²⁶The LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against him, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it up as he did in Egypt. ²⁷On that day his burden will be removed from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of your fatness . ²⁸He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage. ²⁹They have crossed over the pass; they say, 'Geba will be our lodging place.' Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled. ³⁰Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim ! Listen, O Laishah! O poor Anathoth! ³¹Madmenah has fled; the inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge. ³²This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ³³Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop off the boughs with terrifying power; the tall trees will be hewn down, and the lofty ones will be brought low. ³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Translation Notes

4/11/2026

💡 Read the current translation below. If you have suggestions, comment by verse.

📚 Reference Translations

🔬 Exegesis Resources