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Text -- Isaiah 10:1-33 (NET)
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10:1 Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations ,
10:2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment , and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice , so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans .
10:3 What will you do on judgment day , when destruction arrives from a distant place ? To whom will you run for help ? Where will you leave your wealth ?
10:4 You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners , or to fall among those who have been killed . Despite all this , his anger does not subside , and his hand is ready to strike again .
The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria
10:5 Assyria , the club I use to vent my anger , is as good as dead , a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
10:6 I sent him against a godless nation , I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry , to take plunder and to carry away loot , to trample them down like dirt in the streets .
10:7 But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way , for his goal is to destroy , and to eliminate many nations .
10:8 Indeed , he says : “Are not my officials all kings ?
10:9 Is not Calneh like Carchemish ? Hamath like Arpad ? Samaria like Damascus ?
10:10 I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols , whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s or Samaria’s .
10:11 As I have done to Samaria and its idols , so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols .”
10:12 But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem , then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays .
10:13 For he says : “By my strong hand I have accomplished this, by my strategy that I devised . I invaded the territory of nations , and looted their storehouses . Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers .
10:14 My hand discovered the wealth of the nations , as if it were in a nest , as one gathers up abandoned eggs , I gathered up the whole earth . There was no wing flapping , or open mouth chirping .”
10:15 Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood !
10:16 For this reason the sovereign master , the Lord who commands armies , will make his healthy ones emaciated . His majestic glory will go up in smoke .
10:17 The light of Israel will become a fire , their Holy One will become a flame ; it will burn and consume the Assyrian king’s briers and his thorns in one day .
10:18 The splendor of his forest and his orchard will be completely destroyed , as when a sick man’s life ebbs away .
10:19 There will be so few trees left in his forest , a child will be able to count them.
10:20 At that time those left in Israel , those who remain of the family of Jacob , will no longer rely on a foreign leader that abuses them. Instead they will truly rely on the Lord , the Holy One of Israel .
10:21 A remnant will come back , a remnant of Jacob , to the mighty God .
10:22 For though your people , Israel , are as numerous as the sand on the seashore , only a remnant will come back . Destruction has been decreed ; just punishment is about to engulf you.
10:23 The sovereign master , the Lord who commands armies , is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land .
10:24 So here is what the sovereign master , the Lord who commands armies , says : “My people who live in Zion , do not be afraid of Assyria , even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did .
10:25 For very soon my fury will subside , and my anger will be directed toward their destruction .”
10:26 The Lord who commands armies is about to beat them with a whip , similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb . He will use his staff against the sea , lifting it up as he did in Egypt .
10:27 At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders , and their yoke from your neck ; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large .
10:28 They attacked Aiath , moved through Migron , depositing their supplies at Micmash .
10:29 They went through the pass , spent the night at Geba . Ramah trembled , Gibeah of Saul ran away .
10:30 Shout out , daughter of Gallim ! Pay attention , Laishah ! Answer her, Anathoth !
10:31 Madmenah flees , the residents of Gebim have hidden .
10:32 This very day , standing in Nob , they shake their fist at Daughter Zion’s mountain – at the hill of Jerusalem .
10:33 Look , the sovereign master , the Lord who commands armies , is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power . The tallest trees will be cut down , the loftiest ones will be brought low .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Assyria |
Isaiah |
Oppression |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
Nineveh |
ASSYRIA, ASSHUR |
Pride |
ISAIAH, BOOK OF |
Boasting |
Remnant |
GOD, 2 |
God |
Nob |
PALESTINE, 3 |
Madmenah |
Gebim |
Gallim |
Poetry |
Rulers |
Migron |
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NET Notes -> Isa 10:1; Isa 10:1; Isa 10:2; Isa 10:2; Isa 10:2; Isa 10:3; Isa 10:4; Isa 10:4; Isa 10:4; Isa 10:5; Isa 10:5; Isa 10:6; Isa 10:6; Isa 10:6; Isa 10:6; Isa 10:7; Isa 10:7; Isa 10:8; Isa 10:9; Isa 10:10; Isa 10:10; Isa 10:11; Isa 10:11; Isa 10:12; Isa 10:12; Isa 10:12; Isa 10:12; Isa 10:12; Isa 10:13; Isa 10:13; Isa 10:13; Isa 10:14; Isa 10:15; Isa 10:16; Isa 10:16; Isa 10:16; Isa 10:17; Isa 10:17; Isa 10:17; Isa 10:18; Isa 10:18; Isa 10:19; Isa 10:20; Isa 10:20; Isa 10:20; Isa 10:20; Isa 10:20; Isa 10:21; Isa 10:22; Isa 10:22; Isa 10:22; Isa 10:22; Isa 10:22; Isa 10:23; Isa 10:24; Isa 10:24; Isa 10:25; Isa 10:26; Isa 10:26; Isa 10:26; Isa 10:27; Isa 10:27; Isa 10:27; Isa 10:28; Isa 10:28; Isa 10:28; Isa 10:28; Isa 10:30; Isa 10:32; Isa 10:33; Isa 10:33; Isa 10:33
NET Notes: Isa 10:1 Heb “[to] the writers who write out harm.” The participle and verb are in the Piel, suggesting repetitive action.
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NET Notes: Isa 10:3 Heb “the day of visitation” (so KJV, ASV), that is, the day when God arrives to execute justice on the oppressors.
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NET Notes: Isa 10:5 Heb “a cudgel is he, in their hand is my anger.” It seems likely that the final mem (ם) on בְיָדָ...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:9 Calneh … Carchemish … Hamath … Arpad … Samaria … Damascus. The city states listed here were conquered by the Assyrians b...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:10 For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
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NET Notes: Isa 10:12 Heb “I will visit [judgment] on the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of the height of his eyes.̶...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:13 Heb “and I brought down, like a strong one, ones sitting [or “living”].” The participle יוֹשׁ...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:14 The Assyrians’ conquests were relatively unopposed, like robbing a bird’s nest of its eggs when the mother bird is absent.
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NET Notes: Isa 10:15 Heb “the one who pushes it back and forth”; KJV “him that shaketh it”; ASV “him that wieldeth it.”
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NET Notes: Isa 10:16 Heb “and in the place of his glory burning will burn, like the burning of fire.” The highly repetitive text (יֵקַ&...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:17 Heb “his.” In vv. 17-19 the Assyrian king and his empire is compared to a great forest and orchard that are destroyed by fire (symbolic of...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:18 The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. מָסַס (masas), which is used elsewhere of substances dissolving or meltin...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:19 Heb “and the rest of the trees of his forest will be counted, and a child will record them.”
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NET Notes: Isa 10:23 Heb “Indeed (or perhaps “for”) destruction and what is decreed the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is about to accom...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:25 The Hebrew text has simply “fury,” but the pronominal element can be assumed on the basis of what immediately follows (see “my anger...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:26 The Hebrew text reads literally, “and his staff [will be] against the sea, and he will lift it in the way [or “manner”] of Egypt....
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NET Notes: Isa 10:27 The meaning of this line is uncertain. The Hebrew text reads literally, “and the yoke will be destroyed (or perhaps, “pulled down”) ...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:30 The Hebrew text reads “Poor [is] Anathoth.” The parallelism is tighter if עֲנִיָּה (’...
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NET Notes: Isa 10:32 The consonantal text (Kethib) has “a mountain of a house (בֵּית, bet), Zion,” but the marginal reading (Qere...
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