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Assyria: Instrument of Judgment and Its Doom

Isaiah 10:5-19

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5 Alas for Assyria, the rod of my anger and staff—in their hand is my wrath. 6 Against a defiled nation I will send it, and upon a people of my wrath I will command it—to take plunder and seize spoil, and to set them as trampled mud like mire in the streets. 7 But he does not think so, and his heart does not reckon so, for to destroy is in his heart and to cut off nations not a few. 8 For he says, "Are not my officers all together kings?" 9 Is it not like Carchemish, which we captured? Or like Arpad, Hamath? Or like Damascus, Samaria? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols—and their carved images—from Jerusalem and from Samaria. 11 Is it not as I did to Samaria and its idols so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols? 12 And it will be, when the LORD completes all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will visit upon the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the king of Assyria and upon the glory of the height of his eyes. 13 For he said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have been built up. And I have removed the boundaries of peoples and their appointed portions I have plundered, and I have brought down as a mighty one those sitting." 14 And my hand has found the wealth of the peoples like a nest, and like gathering abandoned eggs all the land—I gathered, and there was no fluttering wing or opening mouth or chirping. 15 Shall the axe boast over the one who hews with it? Shall the saw magnify itself over the one who wields it? As if a rod were to wield those who lift it, or as if a staff were to lift up those who lift it—not wood! 16 Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will send leanness into his fat ones, and under his glory he will burn a burning like the burning of fire. 17 And the light of Israel will be like fire, and its Holy One like a flame; and it will burn and devour its thornbush and its brier in one day. 18 And the glory of his forest and his vineyard it will consume from soul to flesh, and it will be like a tottering mast. 19 And the remainder of the trees of their forest will be such a number that a boy can write them.