Woe to Tyrants
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes Luk 11:52Mic 3:1-4Mat 23:23Psa 94:20-21Hab 2:6Jhn 19:6Jhn 9:22Luk 11:42-44
and issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of fair treatment Mal 3:5Isa 3:14Ezk 22:7Isa 1:23Isa 29:21Isa 5:23Amo 2:7Amo 5:11-12
and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people,
to make widows their prey
and orphans their plunder.
What will you do on the day of reckoning Hos 9:7Luk 19:44Job 31:141Pe 2:12Isa 20:6Isa 26:21Isa 5:26Pro 11:4
when devastation comes from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives Isa 5:25Deu 32:30Isa 9:12Jer 37:10Deu 31:15-18Hos 9:12Isa 22:2Isa 24:22
or fall among the slain.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;
His hand is still upraised.
Judgment on Assyria
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; Isa 10:15Isa 14:25Isa 30:30Jer 51:20-24Zep 2:13Isa 13:5Isa 14:5-6Isa 66:14
the staff in their hands is My wrath.
I will send him against a godless nation; Isa 9:17Isa 10:13-14Isa 19:17Isa 37:26-27Jer 25:9Jer 34:22Jer 47:6-7Zec 10:5
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.
But this is not his intention; Gen 50:20Act 2:23Mic 4:11-12Act 13:27-30Isa 36:18-20Isa 37:11-13
this is not his plan.
For it is in his heart to destroy
and cut off many nations.
“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says. 2Ki 18:242Ki 19:10Dan 2:37Ezk 26:7Isa 36:8
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? 2Ch 35:202Ki 16:9Gen 10:10Jer 46:22Ki 17:242Ki 17:5-62Ki 18:9-102Sa 8:9
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria like Damascus?
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms 2Ch 32:12-162Ch 32:192Ki 18:33-352Ki 19:12-132Ki 19:17-19Isa 10:14
whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, Isa 37:10-13Isa 2:8Isa 36:19-20
will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
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. Jer 50:182Ki 19:31Dan 4:37Ezk 31:10Ezk 31:14Isa 10:16-19Isa 10:25-34Isa 10:5-6 For he says: Deu 8:17Dan 4:301Ch 5:262Ki 15:292Ki 16:82Ki 17:242Ki 17:62Ki 18:11
‘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.
My hand reached as into a nest Job 31:25Hab 2:5-11Hos 12:7-8Isa 5:8Jer 49:16Nam 2:9Oba 1:4Pro 18:12
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.’”
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Rom 9:20-21Isa 45:9Isa 10:5Isa 29:16Ezk 28:9Jer 51:20-23Psa 17:13-14
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!
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease 2Ch 32:21Act 12:23Psa 106:15Isa 10:18Isa 14:24-27Isa 17:4Isa 29:5-8Isa 30:30-33
among Assyria’s stout warriors,
and under his pomp will be kindled
a fire like a burning flame.
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, Isa 27:4Isa 37:23Jer 4:4Jer 7:20Nam 1:10Num 11:1-3Num 16:35Rev 22:5
and its Holy One a flame.
In a single day it will burn and devour
Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
The splendor of its forests and orchards, 2Ki 19:23Isa 10:33-342Ki 19:28Ezk 20:47-48Isa 9:18Jer 21:14
both soul and body,
it will completely destroy,
as a sickness consumes a man.
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few Isa 21:17Isa 37:36
that a child could count them.
A Remnant Shall Return
On that day the remnant of Israel Isa 37:31-322Ch 28:202Ki 16:7Isa 1:9Isa 17:7-8Isa 50:10Ezr 9:14Hos 14:3
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.
A remnant will return 1—a remnant of Jacob— Isa 9:62Co 3:14-16Hos 6:1Act 26:20Hos 14:1Hos 7:10Hos 7:16Isa 19:22
to the Mighty God.
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, Rom 9:27-28Isa 6:13Dan 9:27Rev 20:8Rom 11:5-61Ki 4:20Act 17:31Gen 18:25
only a remnant will return. 2
Destruction has been decreed,
overflowing with righteousness.
For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out Isa 28:22Dan 4:35Isa 14:26-27Isa 24:1-23Rom 9:28
the destruction decreed upon the whole land. 3
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: Heb 12:22-24Isa 37:6Isa 61:3Exo 1:10-16Exo 14:21-31Exo 14:9Exo 15:6-10Exo 5:14
“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.
For in just a little while Dan 11:362Ki 19:35Heb 10:37Isa 10:33-34Isa 10:5Isa 12:1-2Isa 14:24-25Isa 17:12-14
My fury against you will subside,
and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, Isa 9:4Jdg 7:252Ki 19:35Exo 14:16Exo 14:25-27Hab 3:7-15Isa 10:16-19Isa 10:24
as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb.
He will raise His staff over the sea,
as He did in Egypt.
On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, Isa 9:4Luk 4:18Isa 14:25Psa 105:151Jn 2:20Psa 45:7Nam 1:9-13Psa 20:6
and the yoke from your neck.
The yoke will be broken
because your neck will be too large. 4
Assyria has entered Aiath 1Sa 14:21Sa 13:21Sa 13:51Sa 14:311Sa 14:51Sa 17:22Jdg 18:21Jos 7:2
and passed through Migron,
storing their supplies at Michmash.
They have crossed at the ford: 1Sa 13:231Sa 7:171Sa 11:4Jer 31:15Jos 21:171Ki 15:231Sa 13:161Sa 13:2
“We will spend the night at Geba.”
Ramah trembles;
Gibeah of Saul flees.
Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! 1Sa 25:44Jer 1:1Jos 21:181Ki 2:26Jdg 18:29Jdg 18:7Jer 32:8
Listen, O Laishah!
O wretched Anathoth!
Madmenah flees; Jos 15:31
the people of Gebim take refuge.
Yet today they will halt at Nob, 1Sa 21:11Sa 22:19Isa 19:16Isa 37:22Zec 2:9Isa 1:8Isa 10:24Isa 11:15
shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion,
at the hill of Jerusalem.
Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts Amo 2:9Dan 4:37Isa 37:382Ch 32:212Ki 19:21-37Isa 10:16-19Isa 2:11-17Isa 37:24-36
will lop off the branches with terrifying power.
The tall trees will be cut down,
the lofty ones will be felled.
He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, Isa 37:242Pe 2:112Th 1:7Dan 4:13-14Dan 4:23Isa 10:18Isa 31:8Isa 37:36
and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.