1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes
2to deprive the poor of fair treatment
3What will you do on the day of reckoning
4Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives
5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger;
6I will send him against a godless nation;
7But this is not his intention;
8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
9“Is not Calno like Carchemish?
10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms
11and as I have done to Samaria and its idols,
12So 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.
13For he says:
14My hand reached as into a nest
15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it?
16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease
17And the Light of Israel will become a fire,
18The splendor of its forests and orchards,
19The remaining trees of its forests will be so few
20On that day the remnant of Israel
21A remnant will return 10:21 Hebrew Shear-jashub; also in verse 22; see Isaiah 7:3.—a remnant of Jacob—
22Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea,
23For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out
24Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says:
25For in just a little while
26And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them,
27On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders,
28Assyria has entered Aiath
29They have crossed at the ford:
30Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim!
31Madmenah flees;
32Yet today they will halt at Nob,
33Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts
34He will clear the forest thickets with an axe,