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Isaiah 10:12-19 (GN)

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¹² But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride." ¹³ The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there. ¹⁴ The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!" ¹⁵ But the LORD says, "Can an ax claim to be greater than the one who uses it? Is a saw more important than the one who saws with it? A club doesn't lift up a person; a person lifts up a club." ¹⁶ The LORD Almighty is going to send disease to punish those who are now well-fed. In their bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns. ¹⁷ God, the light of Israel, will become a fire. Israel's holy God will become a flame, which in a single day will burn up everything, even the thorns and thistles. ¹⁸ The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone. ¹⁹ There will be so few trees left that even a child will be able to count them.

This passage is referenced in the following study note(s):
(v. 12) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)
(v. 13) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)
(v. 14) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)
(v. 15) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)
(v. 16) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)
(v. 17) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)
(v. 18) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)
(v. 19) Devotional: Pride and Humility (2008-12-12)

Definition(s):
Assyria (Ass-irr-ee-a): country of Assur or Ashur
Zion (Zy-on): monument; raised up; sepulcher