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title: Isaiah 10
slug: kjv/isaiah-10
createdAt: 2024-08-21T03:12:20.173Z
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**1 **Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness *which* they have prescribed;

**2 **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!

**3 **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?

**4 **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.

**5 **O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

**6 **I will send him against an 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.

**7 **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.

**8 **For he saith, *Are* not my princes altogether kings?

**9 ***Is* not Calno as Carchemish? *is* not Hamath as Arpad? *is* not Samaria as Damascus?

**10 **As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

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

**12 **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.

**13 **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*:

**14 **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.

**15 **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.

**16 **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.

**17 **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;

**18 **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.

**19 **And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

**20 **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.

**21 **The remnant shall return, *even* the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

**22 **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.

**23 **For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

**24 **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. **25 **For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. **26 **And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and *as* his rod *was* upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. **27 **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.

**28 **He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

**29 **They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

**30 **Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

**31 **Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

**32 **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.

**33 **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.

**34 **And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.