Jesaja 10

1Woe to those who enact unjust laws and write unfair decrees. 2They deprive the needy of justice, rob the poor of my people of their rights, 3What will you do on judgment day when the destruction comes from far away? 4Nothing remains, and you crouch among the prisoners or fall among the killed. 5Woe to the Assyrian, the club of my anger, the rod by whom I wield my fury! 6I send him against an arrogant nation and against the people who bear my overflowing wrath. 7But this is not what he intends, nor does he think this way. 8For he says, “Are not all my princes kings? 9Is not Kalno like Carchemish? 10As my hand has overcome idolatrous kingdoms, whose carved figures were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11just as I did to Samaria and her worthless idols, 12When the Lord has finished his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and his prideful looks. 13For he says, 14My hand has seized, as from a nest, the wealth of nations, 15Will the ax boast about itself against the one who wields it? 16Therefore the Lord Yahweh of hosts will send emaciation among his elite warriors; 17The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; 18Yahweh will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful land, both soul and body; 19The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few, that a child could count them. 20On that day, the remnant of Israel, the family of Jacob that has escaped, will no longer rely on the one who defeated them, but will indeed depend on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel. 21A remnant of Jacob will return to the mighty God. 22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the seashore, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, as overflowing righteousness demands. 23For the Lord Yahweh of hosts, is about to carry out the destruction determined throughout the land. 24Therefore the Lord Yahweh of hosts says, “My people who live in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian. He will strike you with the rod and raise his staff against you, as the Egyptians did. 25Do not fear him, for in a very short time my anger against you will end, and my anger will lead to his destruction.” 26Then Yahweh of hosts will wield a whip against them, as when he defeated Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise his rod over the sea and lift it up as he did in Egypt. 27On that day, his burden is lifted from your shoulder and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness. The last line of this verse is difficult because it does not seem to fit the context. Some modern versions leave out because of fatness . Other modern versions have and the yoke will be destroyed from off your neck. He has gone up from Rimmon . Here He means the Assyrian king and his army. 28The enemy has come to Aiath 29They have crossed over the pass and they lodge at Geba. 30Cry aloud, daughter of Gallim! Give attention, Laishah! 31Madmenah is fleeing, 32This very day he will halt 33Behold, the Lord Yahweh of hosts will lop off the boughs with a terrifying crash;