←Isaiah 10→BSB

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Israel 9 Jacob (Patriarch) 6 Oreb 2 Saul (Son of Kish) 2 Jeshurun (Israel)

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    Greatness 6 Holy 6 Idol 5 Deal With 5 Ability (Skill) 4 Mighty One 4 Truth (Faithfulness) 4 Mighty (Majestic) 4 Strength 3 Perceive 3 Woe (Future Suffering) 2 Visitation 2 Mischief Decree Fixed Allowance Fixed Quota Glory (Presence of God) Glory (Splendor) Praise (Glorify) Praise (Respect) Appoint Ability (Power) World Wisdom Universe Miracle Ability (Spiritual) Lordship Spiritually Strong-Willed Be Holy Holy (Pure) Holy Thing Most Holy Place Holiness Holy (Devout) Hallow Sanctuary Truthfulness Justice (Right) Be (Or Show Oneself) Just Acquit Righteousness (Standard) Righteousness (Act) Just Put Right With Make Righteous Deserved Justify (Vindicate) Justify Justly Justice Righteousness (Quality) Fear Fear (State) Awe (State) Fear (Terror) Fear (Reverence) Fear (Awe) Fearful Respect Respect (Among People)

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    Woe to Tyrants

    ⓘ This prophecy was directed against Judah’s leaders, who...

    This prophecy was directed against Judah’s leaders, who used their positions to enrich themselves at the people’s expense.
    1Woe to those who enact unjust statutesand issue oppressive decrees,2to deprive the poor of fair treatmentand withhold justice from the oppressed of My people,to make widows their preyand orphans their plunder.
    3What will you do on the day of reckoningwhen devastation comes from afar?To whom will you flee for help?Where will you leave your wealth?4Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captivesor fall among the slain.
    Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;His hand is still upraised.

    Judgment on Assyria

    ⓘ The primacy of the Lord’s moral law was...

    The primacy of the Lord’s moral law was established in 9:8–10:4; this passage works out the implications of the law: (1) Assyria was only a tool in God’s hands and was therefore as liable to judgment by God as any other nation (10:5–19, 28–34); (2) those among God’s people who trusted in him and obeyed his covenant would be rescued (10:20–27); and (3) God would establish his kingdom on earth (ch 11).
    ⓘ This judgment was pronounced on Assyria because of...

    This judgment was pronounced on Assyria because of their ruthless destruction of nations (10:7), blasphemous boasting (10:12), oppression (10:13–14), and self-perceived autonomy (10:15).
    5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger;the staff in their hands is My wrath.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.
    7But this is not his intention;this is not his plan.For it is in his heart to destroyand cut off many nations.8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.9“Is not Calno like Carchemish?Is not Hamath like Arpad?Is not Samaria like Damascus?10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdomswhose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,11and as I have done to Samaria and its idols,will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

    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. 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 nationsand plundered their treasures;like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.14My hand reached as into a nestto seize the wealth of the nations.Like one gathering abandoned eggs,I gathered all the earth.No wing fluttered,no beak opened or chirped.’”
    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!
    16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting diseaseamong Assyria’s stout warriors,and under his pomp will be kindleda fire like a burning flame.17And the Light of Israel will become a fire,and its Holy One a flame.In a single day it will burn and devourAssyria’s thorns and thistles.18The splendor of its forests and orchards,both soul and body,it will completely destroy,as a sickness consumes a man.19The remaining trees of its forests will be so fewthat a child could count them.

    A Remnant Shall Return

    ⓘ In the midst of Assyrian oppression, there was...

    In the midst of Assyrian oppression, there was hope for the remnant. This passage develops more fully the meaning of Shear-jashub, a remnant will return (10:21; see 7:3; 8:18).
    20On that day the remnant of Israeland the survivors of the house of Jacobwill no longer dependon him who struck them,but they will truly rely on the LORD,the Holy One of Israel.
    21A remnant will return —†a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.22Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea,only a remnant will return.†Destruction has been decreed,overflowing with righteousness.23For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry outthe destruction decreed upon the whole land.†
    ⓘ God assured his people of his presence and...

    God assured his people of his presence and purpose.

    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 rodand lifts his staff against youas the Egyptians did.25For in just a little whileMy fury against you will subside,and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
    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.27On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders,and the yoke from your neck.The yoke will be brokenbecause your neck will be too large.†
    ⓘ Look, the Assyrians are now at Aiath: The...

    Look, the Assyrians are now at Aiath: The march described in 10:29–32 is a poetic account of Assyria’s defeat. The places follow a route from the north down to Jerusalem. Upon arriving at Jerusalem, the Assyrians were forced to retreat. God was with Jerusalem, and eventually Assyria would be utterly destroyed. This passage might foretell Sennacherib’s invasion in 701 BC (see chs 36–37), but it could just as well describe an earlier or later invasion.
    28Assyria has entered Aiathand passed through Migron,storing their supplies at Michmash.29They have crossed at the ford:“We will spend the night at Geba.”Ramah trembles;Gibeah of Saul flees.30Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim!Listen, O Laishah!O wretched Anathoth!31Madmenah flees;the people of Gebim take refuge.32Yet today they will halt at Nob,shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion,at the hill of Jerusalem.
    33Behold, the Lord GOD of Hostswill lop off the branches with terrifying power.The tall trees will be cut down,the lofty ones will be felled.34He will clear the forest thickets with an axe,and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.