Isaiah 10

1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decreesCross-references: 1Ki 21:13 · Esth 3:10 · Ps 58:2 · Ps 94:20 · Isa 3:11 · Isa 5:8 · +25 more

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!Cross-references: Isa 1:23 · Isa 3:14 · Isa 5:7 · Isa 5:23 · Isa 29:21 · Jer 7:6 · +6 more

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?Cross-references: Gen 31:1 · Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 7:6 · 2Ki 7:15 · Job 31:14 · Ps 49:16 · +21 more

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.Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:36 · Deut 31:15 · Deut 32:30 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 9:12 · +8 more

5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!Cross-references: Gen 10:11 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 125:3 · Isa 8:4 · Isa 10:15 · Isa 13:5 · +6 more

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.Cross-references: 2Sam 22:43 · Isa 5:29 · Isa 9:17 · Isa 9:19 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 19:17 · +17 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 50:20 · Isa 36:18 · Isa 37:11 · Mic 4:11 · Acts 2:23 · Acts 13:27

8For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?Cross-references: 2Ki 18:24 · 2Ki 19:10 · Isa 36:8 · Ezek 26:7 · Dan 2:37

9Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”Cross-references: Gen 10:10 · 2Sam 8:9 · 2Ki 16:9 · 2Ki 17:5 · 2Ki 17:24 · 2Ki 18:9 · +8 more

10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,Cross-references: 2Ki 18:33 · 2Ki 19:12 · 2Ki 19:17 · 2Chr 32:12 · 2Chr 32:19 · Isa 10:14

11shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?Cross-references: Isa 2:8 · Isa 36:19 · Isa 37:10

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:31 · Job 40:11 · Ps 18:27 · Ps 21:10 · Ps 76:10 · Prov 30:13 · +24 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 16:8 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 17:24 · 2Ki 18:11 · +15 more

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.”Cross-references: Job 31:25 · Prov 18:12 · Prov 21:6 · Isa 5:8 · Jer 49:16 · Hos 12:7 · +3 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 17:13 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 29:16 · Isa 45:9 · Jer 51:20 · Ezek 28:9 · +1 more

16Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:21 · Ps 106:15 · Isa 5:17 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 9:5 · Isa 10:18 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Num 11:1 · Num 16:35 · Ps 18:8 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 27:1 · Ps 50:3 · +24 more

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:23 · 2Ki 19:28 · Isa 9:18 · Isa 10:33 · Jer 21:14 · Ezek 20:47

19The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.Cross-references: Isa 21:17 · Isa 37:36

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 Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.Cross-references: 2Ki 16:7 · 2Chr 28:20 · Ezra 9:14 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 6:13 · +10 more

21A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.Cross-references: Isa 7:3 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 9:13 · Isa 19:22 · Isa 55:7 · Isa 65:8 · +6 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · 1Ki 4:20 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 8:8 · Isa 27:10 · +9 more

23For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.Cross-references: Isa 14:26 · Isa 24:1 · Isa 28:22 · Dan 4:35 · Rom 9:28

24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 1:10 · Ex 5:14 · Ex 14:9 · Ex 14:21 · Ex 15:6 · Ps 87:5 · +16 more

25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”Cross-references: 2Ki 19:35 · Ps 37:10 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 10:33 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 14:24 · +7 more

26Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 14:16 · Ex 14:25 · Judg 7:25 · 2Ki 19:35 · Neh 9:10 · Ps 35:23 · +11 more

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.Cross-references: 2Sam 1:21 · 2Ki 18:13 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 20:6 · Ps 45:7 · +15 more

28He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.Cross-references: Josh 7:2 · Judg 18:21 · 1Sam 13:2 · 1Sam 13:5 · 1Sam 14:2 · 1Sam 14:5 · +3 more

29They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.Cross-references: Josh 18:24 · Josh 21:17 · Judg 19:12 · 1Sam 7:17 · 1Sam 11:4 · 1Sam 13:2 · +9 more

30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!Cross-references: Josh 21:18 · Judg 18:7 · Judg 18:29 · 1Sam 25:44 · 1Ki 2:26 · Jer 1:1 · +1 more

31Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.Cross-references: Josh 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 21:1 · 1Sam 22:19 · Neh 11:32 · Isa 1:8 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 10:24 · +6 more

33Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:21 · 2Chr 32:21 · Job 40:11 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 10:16 · Isa 37:24 · +4 more

34He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.Cross-references: Ps 103:20 · Isa 10:18 · Isa 31:8 · Isa 37:24 · Isa 37:36 · Jer 22:7 · +10 more