Isaiah 10:5
3 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 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.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6 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 But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- KJV
- O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
- WEB
- Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
- ASV
- Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!
- DARBY
- Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
- BLB
- Woe [to] Assyria, the rod of My anger, and the staff that [is] in their hand [is] My rage.
- ÅB
- Ve Assur, min vredes ris! Min harme er staven i hans hånd.
- OTB
- Ve Assyria, min vredes stav, i hvis hånd er min harme.
- B1930
- Ve Assur, min vredes ris! Min harme er staven i hans hånd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 51:20–24
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:30
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Read in contextZephaniah 2:13
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:25
I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
Read in contextIsaiah 10:15
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!
Read in contextIsaiah 13:5
They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the LORD and the weapons of His wrath— to destroy the whole country.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:5–6
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
Read in contextIsaiah 66:14
When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
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