Isaiah Chapter 10

Woe to tyrants

10:1 Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
10:2 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!
10:3 And what will y’all do in the day of punishment, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will y’all escape for help? and where will y’all leave your glory?
10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the dead. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

Assyria to be broken

10:5 O Assyrian (or Asshur), the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
10:6 I will send him against a godless nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the plunder, and to take the prey, and to stomp them down like the mud in the streets.
10:7 However he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
10:8 For he says, Aren’t my rulers altogether kings?
10:9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? isn’t Hamath like Arpad (or Arphad)? isn’t Samaria like Damascus?
10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose carved images did excel them of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here and of Samaria;
10:11 Shall I not, like I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here and her idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall so happen, that when YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has performed his whole work on mount Zion and on Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 Because he says, 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:
10:14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and like one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that cuts with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shakes 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.
10:16 So shall Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy Oneקָדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

A remnant of Israel to be saved

10:20 And it shall so happen in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here, shall no more again stay on him that struck them; but shall stay on YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, the Holy Oneקָדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here of Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob יַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here, to the mighty EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here.
10:22 Because though your people Israel be like the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the annihilation decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
10:23 For Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
Hebrew pronunciation: [ʾăḏōnāy], lit. transl. My Lords, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts shall make an annihilation, even determined, in the middle of all the land.
10:24 So says Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
Hebrew pronunciation: [ʾăḏōnāy], lit. transl. My Lords, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts, O my people that live in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike you with a rod (or branch), and shall lift up his staff against you, after the wayדֶּרֶךְ‎
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, distance, journey, manner For more info click here of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.
10:26 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts shall stir up a whip for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb (meaning raven): and as his rod was on the sea, so shall he lift it up after the wayדֶּרֶךְ‎
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, distance, journey, manner For more info click here of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall so happen in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is crossed over to Migron; at Michmash (or Michmas) he has laid up his vessels:
10:29 They had gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba (or Gaba or Gibeah); Ramah is afraid; Gibeah (or hill) of Saul has escaped.
10:30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim (meaning springs): cause it to be heard to Laish, O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah (dunghill) have retreated; the inhabitants of Gebim (meaning cisterns) gather themselves to escape.
10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here.
10:33 See, Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts, shall cut off the branch with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be cut down, and the exalted shall be humbled.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.