THE
BOOK OF ISAIAH
Isaiah Chapter 10
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¶ Woe to those who issue unrighteous rulings, and write oppressive laws which
they have decreed;
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To deprive the poor of justice, and deprive the afflicted among my people of
what is right, so that they can prey on widows, and rob orphans!
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What will you do on the day of punishment, when destruction will come from
afar? to whom will you run for help? and where will you leave your riches?
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Without me they will bow down among the prisoners, and they will fall under the
slain. For all this his anger will not be turned away, but his hand will
remain stretched out in judgement.
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¶ Woe to
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I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and command him to attack a
people I am angry with, to take the spoil, and seize the prey, and to trample
them underfoot like the dirt in the streets.
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However this is not what he intends, or the plan that he has in his mind; but it
is his intent to destroy and cut off many nations.
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For he asks, Are not all my princes kings?
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Is not Calno like
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As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did
excel them of
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Shall I not do to
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Therefore it will come to pass, that when the Lord has finished all his
work on
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For he has said, I have accomplished it by the strength of my own hand, and by
my own wisdom; for I am clever: and I have abolished the borders of nations,
and plundered their treasures, and like a bull I have pushed them from their
thrones:
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And my hand has found the riches of the nations as one finds a nest: and
as one gathers eggs that have been left, I have gathered all the earth;
and no one moved a wing, opened his mouth, or let out a peep.
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Should an axe exalt itself above the one who chops with it? or
should a saw magnify itself against the one who saws with it? as if a rod could shake the one who lifts it, or a
staff could lift what is not wood.
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Therefore the Lord, the Lord of armies, will send leanness on the well fed of
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And the light of
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And will completely destroy the glory of his forest, and his fruitful field:
and they will be like a sick man wasting away.
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And the remaining trees of his forest will be few, so that a child could list
them.
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¶ And it will come to pass at that time, that those who are left in
Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who escaped, will no longer depend on
the one who struck him; but will faithfully rely on the LORD, the Holy One of
Israel.
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The remnant, those who remain of Jacob, will return to the mighty God.
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For although your people
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For the Lord GOD of armies has resolved to destroy, in the midst of all the
earth.
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¶ Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts says this, O my people who dwell in
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For in a little while, my anger will cease, and my fury will turn to their
destruction.
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Then the LORD of hosts will raise up a scourge against them as when he struck
down Midian at the rock of Oreb:
and as he raised his rod over the sea, and lifted it up on the road from
Egypt.
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And it will come to pass in that day, that his burden will be removed
from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and
the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing.
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The Assyrian has come to Aiath, he passes through Migron; he has laid down his baggage at Michmash:
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They have gone through the pass: and lodge at Geba for
the night; Ramah trembles; Saul’s Gibeah flees.
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Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim: listen to
it Laish, answer it Anathoth.
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Madmenah flees; the inhabitants of Gebim run to save themselves.
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Today he will stop at Nob: he will shake his fist at
the mount of the daughter of
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Behold, the Lord, the LORD of armies, will chop off the branches with terrifying
power: and those who stand tall will be cut down, and the haughty will
be humbled.
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And he is cutting down the thick forest with axes, and