Isaiah 10
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Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and that write grievousness which they have
prescribed;
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to turn aside the needy from judgment,
and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows
may be their prey, and that they may rob the
fatherless!
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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?
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Without me they shall bow down under the
prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
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The LORD's Use of Assyria |
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O Assyrian, Is. 14.24-27 · Nah. 1.1--3.19 · 2.13-15 the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation.
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I will send him against a hypocritical
nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge,
to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like
the mire of the streets.
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Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth
his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut
off nations not a few.
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For he saith, Are not my princes
altogether kings?
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Is not Calno as Car'chemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as
Damascus?
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As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the
idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of
Samaria;
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shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria
and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
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Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount
Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of
the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
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For he saith, By the strength of my hand
I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I
have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their
treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
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and my hand hath found as a nest the
riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved
the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
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Shall the axe boast itself against him
that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself
against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the
staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
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Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of
hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he
shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
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And the light of Israel shall be for a
fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his
thorns and his briers in one day;
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and shall consume the glory of his
forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they
shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
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And the rest of the trees of his forest
shall be few, that a child may write them.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the
house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them;
but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of
Israel, in truth.
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The remnant shall return, even the
remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
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For though thy people Israel be as the
sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the
consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
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For the Lord GOD of
hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all
the land. Rom. 9.27, 28
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be
not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and
shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of
Egypt.
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For yet a very little while, and the
indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their
destruction.
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And the LORD of
hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of
Mid'i-an at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon
the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
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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 be destroyed
because of the anointing.
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He is come to Ai'ath, he is passed to
Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
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they are gone over the passage: they have
taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gib'e-ah of Saul is
fled.
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Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim:
cause it to be heard unto La'ish, O poor An'athoth.
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Madme'nah is removed; the inhabitants of
Gebim gather themselves to flee.
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As yet shall he remain at Nob that day:
he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and
the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty
shall be humbled.
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And he shall cut down the thickets of the
forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty
one.
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