Isaiah 10:5

God’s Judgment on Assyria

5 “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

Isaiah 10:5 in Other Translations

KJV
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
ESV
5 Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
NLT
5 “What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger. I use it as a club to express my anger.
MSG
5 "Doom to Assyria, weapon of my anger. My wrath is a cudgel in his hands!
CSB
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger- the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Isaiah 10:5 In-Context

3 What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
5 “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
6 I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.

Cross References 5

  • 1. S 2 Kings 19:21; S Isaiah 28:1
  • 2. ver 12,18; S Isaiah 7:20; Isaiah 14:25; Isaiah 31:8; Isaiah 37:7; Zephaniah 2:13
  • 3. Isaiah 14:5; Isaiah 54:16
  • 4. ver 15,24; Isaiah 30:31; Isaiah 41:15; Isaiah 45:1; Jeremiah 50:23; Jeremiah 51:20
  • 5. Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 13:3,5,13; Isaiah 26:20; Isaiah 30:30; Isaiah 34:2; Isaiah 63:6; Isaiah 66:14; Ezekiel 30:24-25
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