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    Isaiah 10

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    Assyria gathers the wealth of the earth like abandoned eggs, and boasts that not a single bird stirred, chirped, or even opened its beak.

    The rod that mistakes itself for the handvv. 1–19

    The chapter begins with rulers who write injustice into law, making widows prey and orphans plunder. Then Assyria appears as the rod of divine anger, sent against a godless nation—though Assyria has grander plans, intending to destroy many nations. Its king reels off his conquests, pairing Calneh with Carchemish, Hamath with Arpad, and Samaria with Damascus, before setting his sights on Jerusalem. He describes the nations as a nest of abandoned eggs, gathered without so much as a flutter. The reply is a splendid little humiliation of imperial self-importance: an axe does not swing its wielder, nor a saw boast over the one who saws. Assyria’s stout warriors and forests will be consumed, and its magnificent apparatus reduced to a handful of countable trees.

    A remnant, and a very large neckvv. 20–27

    After the trees come the survivors. The remnant of Israel and the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but will rely on the LORD, and a remnant will return to the Mighty God. Even a people as numerous as the sand of the sea will not all return; destruction has been decreed. Yet Assyria is told not to be feared forever. Its rod and staff will give way, the burden will leave the shoulders, and the yoke will break for the wonderfully physical reason that the neck has become too large for it. A yoke, one feels, has rarely been defeated by anatomy.

    The march reaches Nobvv. 28–34

    The final movement becomes a hurried itinerary. Assyria enters Aiath, passes through Migron, stores supplies at Michmash, crosses the ford, and proposes to spend the night at Geba. Ramah trembles, Gibeah flees, Laishah is summoned to listen, Madmenah flees, and the people of Gebim take refuge. The advance halts at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion and the hill of Jerusalem. Then the scene changes from marching army to felled forest: branches are lopped, lofty trees brought down, thickets cleared with an axe, and Lebanon falls before the Mighty One.

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    1. Isa 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

    2. Isa 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

    3. Isa 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

    4. Isa 10:4Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

    5. Isa 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

    6. Isa 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

    7. Isa 10:7But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

    8. Isa 10:8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.

    9. Isa 10:9“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

    10. Isa 10:10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

    11. Isa 10:11and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

    12. Isa 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

    13. Isa 10:13For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

    14. Isa 10:14My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”

    15. Isa 10:15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

    16. Isa 10:16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.

    17. Isa 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

    18. Isa 10:18The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.

    19. Isa 10:19The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.

    20. Isa 10:20On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

    21. Isa 10:21A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.

    22. Isa 10:22Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

    23. Isa 10:23For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

    24. Isa 10:24Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.

    25. Isa 10:25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”

    26. Isa 10:26And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.

    27. Isa 10:27On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.

    28. Isa 10:28Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.

    29. Isa 10:29They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.

    30. Isa 10:30Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!

    31. Isa 10:31Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.

    32. Isa 10:32Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

    33. Isa 10:33Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

    34. Isa 10:34He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

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    • 27Isaiah 9:4For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
    • 27Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
    • 27Isaiah 14:25I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
    • 27Psalms 105:15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
    • 271 John 2:20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
    • 27Psalms 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
    • 27Nahum 1:9–13Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
    • 27Psalms 20:6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
    • 271 John 2:27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
    • 22Romans 9:27–28Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
    • 15Romans 9:20–21But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
    • 1Luke 11:52Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
    • 272 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
    • 1Micah 3:1–4Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
    • 15Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
    • 15Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

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