Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 17

Through My Bible – December 17

Isaiah 10:5-34 (EHV)

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⁵ Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger.
The club of my rage is in his hand!
⁶ I will send him against a godless nation
and against the people who anger me.
I will command him to take the plunder,
to seize the spoils,
and to tread them down like mud in the streets.
⁷ But he does not intend to do this.
This is not what he has in mind.
The intention of his heart is to destroy
and to cut off more than just a few nations.
⁸ This is what he says:
Aren’t all of my officials kings?
⁹     Isn’t Kalno like Carchemish?
    Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?
    Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?
¹⁰     Just as my hand has reached the kingdoms of those petty gods,
    kingdoms whose images were greater than those
        of Jerusalem and of Samaria,
¹¹     just as I have done to Samaria and her petty gods,
    will I not do the same to Jerusalem and her worthless idols?

By the strength of my hand I have done this,
and by my wisdom,
for I have understanding.
I have abolished the borders of the peoples
and have plundered their treasures.
Like a mighty warrior I have brought down their inhabitants. ^[3]
14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like eggs in a nest.
I have gathered all the earth the way one gathers abandoned eggs.
Not one of them flapped its wings
or opened its mouth or chirped.

¹⁵ Should an ax brag that it is better than the woodsman
who chops with it?
Should a saw think that it is greater than the one who saws with it?
That would be like a scepter waving the one who raised it up,
or like a club lifting up a person, who is not made of wood.
¹⁶ Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of Armies, will make
    the sturdy Assyrians waste away,
and in place of their glory, he will light a fire, a blazing fire.

²⁸ The Assyrian has come to Aiath. ^[6]
He has passed through Migron.
At Mikmash he stores his supplies.
²⁹ They have crossed over the pass.
They made their camp at Geba.
Ramah trembles.
Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰ Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim.
Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
³¹ Madmenah is a fugitive.
The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
³² This very day he will halt at Nob.
He will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.
³³ But look! The Lord, the Lord of Armies,
will chop off his branches with terrifying power.
The tall trees will be cut down,
and the lofty will be laid low.
³⁴ He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron ax,
and mighty Lebanon will fall. ^[7]

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 10:12 Here there is a sudden shift from the third person he to the first person I. This is not unusual in Isaiah.
2. Isaiah 10:12 Many English translations simply ignore the words translated the bloated fruit of.
3. Isaiah 10:13 Or kings. The verbal form may be translated those who live there or those who are enthroned there.
4. Isaiah 10:18 Literally both soul and flesh
5. Isaiah 10:27 Literally because of the oil. The meaning of this phrase is uncertain. The Greek text reads from your shoulders.
6. Isaiah 10:28 The towns named in this section are towns the Assyrians would pass as they approached Jerusalem from the north.
7. Isaiah 10:34 Or Lebanon will be felled by the Mighty One