Isaiah 10:5-14

God’s Judgment on Assyria

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.
8 ‘Are not my commanders all kings?’ he says.
9 ‘Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11 shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’ ”
12 When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
13 For he says: “ ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued[a] their kings.
14 As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’ ”

Cross References 33

  • 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
  • 6. S Isaiah 9:17
  • 7. Habakkuk 1:12
  • 8. S 2 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 9:19
  • 9. S Judges 6:4; S Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 8:1
  • 10. S 2 Samuel 22:43; S Psalms 7:5; S Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 37:26-27
  • 11. S Genesis 50:20; Acts 4:23-28
  • 12. 2 Kings 18:24
  • 13. S Genesis 10:10
  • 14. S 2 Chronicles 35:20
  • 15. Numbers 34:8; 2 Chronicles 8:4; Isaiah 11:11
  • 16. 2 Kings 18:34
  • 17. 2 Kings 17:6
  • 18. S Genesis 14:15; 2 Kings 16:9; Jeremiah 49:24
  • 19. 2 Kings 19:18
  • 20. S 2 Kings 19:13; S Isaiah 2:8; Isaiah 36:18-20; Isaiah 37:10-13
  • 21. Isaiah 28:21-22; Isaiah 65:7; Isaiah 66:4; Jeremiah 5:29
  • 22. 2 Kings 19:31
  • 23. S ver 5; S 2 Kings 19:7; Isaiah 30:31-33; Isaiah 37:36-38; Jeremiah 50:18
  • 24. S Isaiah 2:11; S Ezekiel 28:17
  • 25. Psalms 18:27
  • 26. S Deuteronomy 8:17
  • 27. S Deuteronomy 32:26-27; Isaiah 47:7; Isaiah 37:24; Daniel 4:30
  • 28. Ezekiel 28:4
  • 29. Isaiah 14:13-14
  • 30. Jeremiah 49:16; Obadiah 1:4; Habakkuk 2:6-11
  • 31. S Job 31:25
  • 32. Isaiah 14:6
  • 33. 2 Kings 19:22-24; Isaiah 37:24-25

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "treasures;" / "I subdued the mighty,"
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