10WOE TO those [judges] who issue unrighteous decrees, and to the magistrates who keep causing unjust {and} oppressive decisions to be recorded,H1945H2710H205H2711H3789H5999H3789 2To turn aside the needy from justice and to make plunder of the rightful claims of the poor of My people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!H5186H1800H1779H1497H4941H6041H5971H490H7998H962H3490 3And what will you do in the day of visitation [of God's wrath], and in the desolation which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you deposit [for safekeeping] your wealth {and} with whom leave your glory?H6213H3117H6486H7722H935H4801H5127H5833H5800H3519 4Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, and they shall fall [overwhelmed] under the heaps of the slain [on the battlefield]. For all this, [God's] anger is not turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].H1115H3766H616H5307H2026H639H7725H3027H5186 5Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of My anger, the staff in whose hand is My indignation {and} fury [against Israel's disobedience]!H1945H804H7626H639H4294H3027H2195 6I send [the Assyrian] against a hypocritical {and} godless nation and against the people of My wrath; I command him to take the spoil and to seize the prey and to tread them down like the mire in the streets.H7971H2611H1471H5971H5678H6680H7997H7998H962H957H7760H4823H2563H2351 7However, this is not his intention [nor is the Assyrian aware that he is doing this at My bidding], neither does his mind so think {and} plan; but it is in his mind to destroy and cut off many nations.H1819H3824H2803H3824H8045H3772H1471H4592 8For [the Assyrian] says, Are not my officers all either [subjugated] kings {or} their equal?H559H8269H3162H4428 9Is not Calno [of Babylonia conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]? Is not Hamath [in Upper Syria] like Arpad [her neighbor]? Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Syria]? [Have any of these cities been able to resist Assyria? Not one!]H3641H3751H2574H774H8111H1834 10As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols [which were unable to defend them,] whose graven images were more to be feared {and} dreaded {and} more mighty than those of Jerusalem and of Samaria--H3027H4672H4467H457H6456H3389H8111 11Shall I not be able to do to Jerusalem and her images as I have done to Samaria and her idols? [says the Assyrian]H6213H8111H457H6213H3389H6091 12Therefore when the Lord has completed all His work [of chastisement and purification to be executed] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, it shall be that He will inflict punishment on the fruit [the thoughts, words, and deeds] of the stout {and} arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.H136H1214H4639H2022H6726H3389H6485H6529H1433H3824H4428H804H8597H7312H5869 13For [the Assyrian king] has said, I have done it solely by the power of my own hand and wisdom, for I have insight {and} understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples and have robbed their treasures; and like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones {and} the inhabitants.H559H3581H3027H6213H2451H995H5493H1367H5971H8154H6259H6264H3381H3427H47H3524 14And my hand has found like a nest the wealth of the people; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved its wing, or that opened its mouth or chirped.H3027H4672H7064H2428H5971H622H1000H5800H622H776H5074H3671H6475H6310H6850 15Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it back and forth? As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift itself up as if it were not wood [but a man of God]!H1631H6286H2672H4883H1431H5130H7626H5130H7311H4294H7311H6086 16Therefore will the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send leanness among [the Assyrian's] fat ones; and instead of his glory {or} under it He will kindle a burning like the burning of fire.H113H136H3068H6635H7971H4924H7332H3519H3344H3350H784 17And the Light of Israel shall become a fire and His Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour [the Assyrian's] thorns and briers in one day.H216H3478H784H6918H3852H1197H398H7898H8068H259H3117 18[The Lord] will consume the glory of the [Assyrian's] forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and it shall be as when a sick man pines away {or} a standard-bearer faints.H3615H3519H3293H3759H5315H1320H5263H4549 19And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may make a list of them.H7605H6086H3293H4557H5288H3789 20And it shall be in that day that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more lean upon him who smote them, but will lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.H3117H7605H3478H6413H1004H3290H3254H8172H5221H8172H3068H6918H3478H571 21A remnant will return [Shear-jashub, name of Isaiah's son], a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.H7605H7725H7605H3290H1368H410 22For though your population, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of it will return [and survive]. The [fully completed] destruction is decreed (decided upon and brought to an issue); it overflows with justice {and} righteousness [the infliction of just punishment].H5971H3478H2344H3220H7605H7725H3631H2782H7857H6666 23For the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will make a full end, whatever is determined {or} decreed [in Israel], in the midst of all the earth.H136H3069H6635H6213H3617H2782H7130H776 24Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, O My people who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian, who smites you with a rod and lifts up his staff against you, as [the king of] Egypt did.H559H136H3069H6635H5971H3427H6726H3372H804H5221H7626H5375H4294H1870H4714 25For yet a little while and My indignation against you shall be accomplished, and My anger shall be directed to destruction [of the Assyrian].H4213H4592H2195H3615H639H8399 26And the Lord of hosts shall stir up {and} brandish a scourge against them as when He smote Midian at the rock of Oreb; and as His rod was over the [Red] Sea, so shall He lift it up as He did in [the flight from] Egypt.H3068H6635H5782H7752H4347H4080H6697H6159H4294H3220H5375H1870H4714 27And it shall be in that day that the burden of [the Assyrian] shall depart from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck. The yoke shall be destroyed because of fatness [which prevents it from going around your neck].H3117H5448H5493H7926H5923H6677H5923H2254H6440H8081 28[The Assyrian with his army comes to Judah]. He arrives at Aiath; he passes through Migron; at Michmash he gets rid of his baggage [by storing it].H935H5857H5674H4051H4363H6485H3627 29They go through the pass, they make Geba their camping place for the night; Ramah is afraid {and} trembles, Gibeah [the city] of [King] Saul flees.H5674H4569H4411H1387H7414H2729H1390H7586H5127 30Cry aloud [in consternation], O Daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laishah! [Answer her] O you poor Anathoth!H6670H6963H1323H1530H1554H7181H3919H6041H6068 31Madmenah is in flight; the inhabitants of Gebim seize their belongings {and} make their households flee for safety.H4088H5074H3427H1374H5756 32This very day [the Assyrian] will halt at Nob [the city of priests], shaking his fist at the mountain of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.H5975H5011H3117H5130H3027H2022H1323H1004H6726H1389H3389 33[But just when the Assyrian is in sight of his goal] behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will lop off the beautiful boughs with terrorizing force; the high in stature will be hewn down and the lofty will be brought low.H113H3068H6635H5586H6288H4637H7311H6967H1438H1364H8213 34And He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon [the Assyrian] with its majestic trees shall fall by the Mighty One {and} mightily.H5362H5442H3293H1270H3844H5307H117
