Isaiah 10:34 - Prayer Tents

10You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people.H1945H2710H205H2711H3789H5999H3789

2That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.H5186H1800H1779H1497H4941H6041H5971H490H7998H962H3490

3What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth?H6213H3117H6486H7722H935H4801H5127H5833H5800H3519

4You will be killed in battle or dragged off as prisoners. Yet even so the LORD's anger will not be ended; his hand will still be stretched out to punish.H1115H3766H616H5307H2026H639H7725H3027H5186

The Emperor of Assyria as the Instrument of God

5The LORD said, "Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry.H1945H804H7626H639H4294H3027H2195

6I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."H7971H2611H1471H5971H5678H6680H7997H7998H962H957H7760H4823H2563H2351

7But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations.H1819H3824H2803H3824H8045H3772H1471H4592

8He boasts, "Every one of my commanders is a king!H559H8269H3162H4428

9I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus.H3641H3751H2574H774H8111H1834

10I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria.H3027H4672H4467H457H6456H3389H8111

11I have destroyed Samaria and all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalem and the images that are worshiped there."H6213H8111H457H6213H3389H6091

12But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride."H136H1214H4639H2022H6726H3389H6485H6529H1433H3824H4428H804H8597H7312H5869

13The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there.H559H3581H3027H6213H2451H995H5493H1367H5971H8154H6259H6264H3381H3427H47H3524

14The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"H3027H4672H7064H2428H5971H622H1000H5800H622H776H5074H3671H6475H6310H6850

15But the LORD says, "Can an ax claim to be greater than the one who uses it? Is a saw more important than the one who saws with it? A club doesn't lift up a person; a person lifts up a club."H1631H6286H2672H4883H1431H5130H7626H5130H7311H4294H7311H6086

16The LORD Almighty is going to send disease to punish those who are now well-fed. In their bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns.H113H136H3068H6635H7971H4924H7332H3519H3344H3350H784

17God, the light of Israel, will become a fire. Israel's holy God will become a flame, which in a single day will burn up everything, even the thorns and thistles.H216H3478H784H6918H3852H1197H398H7898H8068H259H3117

18The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone.H3615H3519H3293H3759H5315H1320H5263H4549

19There will be so few trees left that even a child will be able to count them.H7605H6086H3293H4557H5288H3789

A Few Will Come Back

20A time is coming when the people of Israel who have survived will not rely any more on the nation that almost destroyed them. They will truly put their trust in the LORD, Israel's holy God.H3117H7605H3478H6413H1004H3290H3254H8172H5221H8172H3068H6918H3478H571

21A few of the people of Israel will come back to their mighty God.H7605H7725H7605H3290H1368H410

22Even though now there are as many people of Israel as there are grains of sand by the sea, only a few will come back. Destruction is in store for the people, and it is fully deserved.H5971H3478H2344H3220H7605H7725H3631H2782H7857H6666

23Yes, throughout the whole country the Sovereign LORD Almighty will bring destruction, as he said he would.H136H3069H6635H6213H3617H2782H7130H776

The Lord Will Punish Assyria

24The Sovereign LORD Almighty says to his people who live in Zion, "Do not be afraid of the Assyrians, even though they oppress you as the Egyptians used to do.H559H136H3069H6635H5971H3427H6726H3372H804H5221H7626H5375H4294H1870H4714

25In only a little while I will finish punishing you, and then I will destroy them.H4213H4592H2195H3615H639H8399

26I, the LORD Almighty, will beat them with my whip as I did the people of Midian at Oreb Rock. I will punish Assyria as I punished Egypt.H3068H6635H5782H7752H4347H4080H6697H6159H4294H3220H5375H1870H4714

27When that time comes, I will free you from the power of Assyria, and their yoke will no longer be a burden on your shoulders."H3117H5448H5493H7926H5923H6677H5923H2254H6440H8081

The Invader Attacks

28The enemy army has captured the city of Ai! They have passed through Migron! They left their supplies at Michmash!H935H5857H5674H4051H4363H6485H3627

29They have crossed the pass and are spending the night at Geba! The people in the town of Ramah are terrified, and the people in King Saul's hometown of Gibeah have run away.H5674H4569H4411H1387H7414H2729H1390H7586H5127

30Shout, people of Gallim! Listen, people of Laishah! Answer, people of Anathoth!H6670H6963H1323H1530H1554H7181H3919H6041H6068

31The people of Madmenah and Gebim are running for their lives.H4088H5074H3427H1374H5756

32Today the enemy are in the town of Nob, and there they are shaking their fists at Mount Zion, at the city of Jerusalem.H5975H5011H3117H5130H3027H2022H1323H1004H6726H1389H3389

33The LORD Almighty will bring them crashing down like branches cut off a tree. The proudest and highest of them will be cut down and humiliated.H113H3068H6635H5586H6288H4637H7311H6967H1438H1364H8213

34The LORD will cut them down as trees in the heart of the forest are cut down with an ax, as even the finest trees of Lebanon fall!H5362H5442H3293H1270H3844H5307H117