NITHYAM SONGSIsaiah 10
World English Bible (WEB) • 34 verses
1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
2to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
RelatedIsaiah 10:15 · Isaiah 14:25 · Zephaniah 2:13 · Isaiah 30:30 · Jeremiah 51:20-24 · Isaiah 66:14
6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
RelatedIsaiah 9:17 · Isaiah 10:13-14 · Jeremiah 34:22 · Isaiah 37:26-27 · Jeremiah 47:6-7 · Zechariah 10:5
7However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
RelatedGenesis 50:20 · Micah 4:11-12 · Acts 2:23 · Isaiah 36:18-20 · Isaiah 37:11-13 · Acts 13:27-30
8For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
9Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
Related2 Chronicles 35:20 · 2 Kings 16:9 · Jeremiah 46:2 · Genesis 10:10 · Isaiah 7:8 · 2 Kings 17:24
10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,
Related2 Kings 19:12-13 · 2 Chronicles 32:19 · 2 Kings 19:17-19 · 2 Chronicles 32:12-16 · Isaiah 10:14 · 2 Kings 18:33-35
11shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
RelatedJeremiah 50:18 · Isaiah 46:10-11 · Job 40:11-12 · Ezekiel 31:10 · Ezekiel 31:14 · Isaiah 50:11
13For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
RelatedDeuteronomy 8:17 · Daniel 4:30 · Isaiah 10:8 · Hosea 13:15-16 · Amos 5:27-6:2 · 2 Kings 15:29
14My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
RelatedJob 31:25 · Jeremiah 49:16 · Proverbs 21:6-7 · Hosea 12:7-8 · Habakkuk 2:5-11 · Nahum 2:9-3:1
15Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
16Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Related2 Chronicles 32:21 · Acts 12:23 · Psalms 106:15 · Isaiah 33:10-14 · Isaiah 29:5-8 · Isaiah 37:29
17The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
18He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.
Related2 Kings 19:23 · Isaiah 10:33-34 · 2 Kings 19:28 · Jeremiah 21:14 · Ezekiel 20:47-48 · Isaiah 9:18
19The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.
20It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
RelatedIsaiah 37:31-32 · Isaiah 50:10 · Isaiah 17:7-8 · 2 Kings 16:7 · Isaiah 1:9 · 2 Chronicles 28:20
21A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
RelatedRomans 9:27-28 · Isaiah 6:13 · Revelation 20:8 · Romans 11:5-6 · Daniel 9:27 · Isaiah 27:10-11
23For the Lord, GOD of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.
24Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, says, “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
26The LORD of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.
27It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
28He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
29They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
Related1 Samuel 7:17 · 1 Samuel 13:23 · Joshua 21:17 · 1 Samuel 11:4 · Jeremiah 31:15 · 1 Samuel 13:2
30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
31Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
RelatedJoshua 15:31
32This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33Behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
34He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.