Isaiah 10:14-25

¹⁴The riches of the nations hath my hand seized, as a nest; As one gathereth eggs that have been left, So have I gathered the whole world. And there was none that moved the wing, Or that opened the beak, or that chirped.”

¹⁵Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? As if the rod should wield him that lifteth it! As if the staff should lift up him that is not wood!

¹⁶Wherefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send upon his fat ones leanness, And under his glory shall he kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire.

¹⁷The light of Israel shall be a fire, And his Holy One a flame, Which shall burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

¹⁸The glory of his forest and of his fruitful field From the spirit even to the flesh shall he consume; It shall be with them as when a sick man fainteth.

¹⁹The remaining trees of the forest shall be few, So that a child may write them down.

²⁰In that day shall the remnant of Israel, and they that have escaped of the house of Jacob, no more lean upon him that smote them; They shall lean upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty Potentate;

²²For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them shall return. The devastation is decreed; It shall overflow with righteousness.

²³For devastation and punishment doth the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, execute in the midst of the whole land,

²⁴Yet thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts: Fear not, O my people, that dwellest in Zion, because of the Assyrian! With his rod indeed shall he smite thee, And lift up his staff against thee in the manner of Egypt;

²⁵But yet a very little while, and my indignation shall have past, And my anger shall destroy them.