Isaiah 10
1 woe! [the] to decree decree evil: wickedness and to write trouble to write
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
2 to/for to stretch from judgment poor and to/for to plunder justice afflicted people my to/for to be widow spoil their and [obj] orphan to plunder
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
3 and what? to make: do to/for day punishment and to/for devastation from distance to come (in): come upon who? to flee to/for help and where? to leave: forsake glory your
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4 lest to bow underneath: stand prisoner and underneath: stand to kill to fall: kill in/on/with all this not to return: turn back face: anger his and still hand his to stretch
Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
5 woe! Assyria tribe: staff face: anger my and tribe: rod he/she/it in/on/with hand their indignation my
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6 in/on/with nation profane to send: depart him and upon people fury my to command him to/for to loot spoil and to/for to plunder plunder (and to/for to set: make him *Q(k)*) trampling like/as clay outside
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
7 and he/she/it not so to resemble and heart his not so to devise: devise for to/for to destroy in/on/with heart his and to/for to cut: eliminate nation not little
But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
8 for to say not ruler my together king
“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
9 not like/as Carchemish Calneh if: surely yes not like/as Arpad Hamath if: surely yes not like/as Damascus Samaria
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10 like/as as which to find hand my to/for kingdom [the] idol and idol their from Jerusalem and from Samaria
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 not like/as as which to make: do to/for Samaria and to/for idol her so to make: do to/for Jerusalem and to/for idol her
and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
12 and to be for to cut off: to end Lord [obj] all deed: work his in/on/with mountain: mount Zion and in/on/with Jerusalem to reckon: punish upon fruit greatness heart king Assyria and upon beauty height eye his
So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
13 for to say in/on/with strength hand: power my to make: do and in/on/with wisdom my for to understand and to turn aside: remove border people (and ready their *Q(K)*) to plunder and to go down like/as mighty: ox to dwell
For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
14 and to find like/as nest hand my to/for strength: rich [the] people and like/as to gather egg to leave: forsake all [the] land: country/planet I to gather and not to be to wander wing and to open lip and to whisper
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
15 to beautify [the] axe upon [the] to hew in/on/with him if to magnify [the] saw upon to wave him like/as to wave tribe: staff and [obj] to exalt him like/as to exalt tribe: rod not tree: wood
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
16 to/for so to send: depart [the] lord LORD Hosts in/on/with fatness his leanness and underneath: under glory his to burn burning like/as burning fire
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
17 and to be light Israel to/for fire and holy his to/for flame and to burn: burn and to eat thornbush his and thorn his in/on/with day one
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
18 and glory wood his and plantation his from soul and till flesh to end: destroy and to be like/as to melt to faint
The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
19 and remnant tree wood his number to be and youth to write them
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
20 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it not to add: again still remnant Israel and survivor house: household Jacob to/for to lean upon to smite him and to lean upon LORD holy Israel in/on/with truth: true
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
21 remnant to return: return remnant Jacob to(wards) God mighty man
A remnant will return —a remnant of Jacob— to the Mighty God.
22 for if to be people your Israel like/as sand [the] sea remnant to return: return in/on/with him failing to decide to overflow righteousness
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
23 for consumption and to decide Lord YHWH/God Hosts to make in/on/with entrails: among all [the] land: country/planet
For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.
24 to/for so thus to say Lord YHWH/God Hosts not to fear people my to dwell Zion from Assyria in/on/with tribe: staff to smite you and tribe: rod his to lift: fight upon you in/on/with way: conduct Egypt
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.
25 for still little little and to end: finish indignation and face: anger my upon destruction their
For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
26 and to rouse upon him LORD Hosts whip like/as wound Midian in/on/with rock Oreb and tribe: rod his upon [the] sea and to lift: fight him in/on/with way: conduct Egypt
And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.
27 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to turn aside: depart burden his from upon shoulder your and yoke his from upon neck your and to destroy yoke from face: because oil
On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
28 to come (in): come upon Ai to pass in/on/with Migron to/for Michmash to reckon: put article/utensil his
Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
29 to pass ford Geba lodging to/for us to tremble [the] Ramah Gibeah Saul to flee
They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
30 to cry out voice your daughter Gallim to listen Laishah afflicted Anathoth
Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
31 to wander Madmenah to dwell [the] Gebim to seek refuge
Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.
32 still [the] day in/on/with Nob to/for to stand: stand to wave hand his mountain: mount (daughter *Q(K)*) Zion hill Jerusalem
Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 behold [the] lord LORD Hosts to lop bough in/on/with terror and to exalt [the] height to cut down/off and [the] high to abase
Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
34 and to strike thicket [the] wood in/on/with iron and [the] Lebanon in/on/with great to fall: kill
He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
