OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Isaiah 10:5

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Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

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Isaiah 10:2–8

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to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

3

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

4

They will only bow down under the prisoners,

and will fall under the slain.

For all this his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is stretched out still.

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Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

6

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

7

However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

8

For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

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