Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Woe to
those
who
enact
unjust
statutes
and
issue
oppressive
decrees,
Woe unto
them
that
decree
unrighteous
decrees, and
that
write
grievousness
which
they
have
prescribed;
to deprive
the poor
of
fair
treatment
and withhold
justice
from the oppressed
of My people, to
make
widows their prey and orphans
their
plunder.
To turn
aside
the needy
from
judgment,
and to
take
away
the
right
from the poor
of my people, that
widows may
be
their prey ,
and that
they
may
rob
the
fatherless!
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
?
And
what will ye
do in
the day of visitation,
and
in
the
desolation
which
shall
come
from far
? to whom will ye
flee for help? and
where will ye
leave your glory
?
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
.
Without
me
they
shall
bow
down
under
the prisoners,
and
they
shall
fall under
the slain. For
all this his anger is not turned away ,
but
his hand is stretched
out
still.
Woe
to
Assyria
, the rod of My
anger ;
the staff in their hands
is My
wrath
.
O
Assyrian
, the rod of mine
anger ,
and
the staff in their hand
is mine
indignation
.
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.
I will send him against an
hypocritical
nation ,
and
against the
people of
my wrath
will
I
give
him
a
charge
, to take the
spoil,
and to
take
the
prey
, and to tread
them down like the mire
of
the
streets.
But
this
is
not his intention
; this
is
not
his
plan.
For
it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many
nations.
Howbeit
he
meaneth
not so,
neither
doth
his heart
think
so
; but
it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not
a
few
.
“
Are not all
my commanders
kings? ”
he
says.
For
he
saith,
Are not my princes
altogether
kings?
“
Is not Calno like
Carchemish? Is not Hamath like
Arpad? Is not Samaria like
Damascus?
Is not Calno as
Carchemish? is not Hamath as
Arpad? is not Samaria as
Damascus?
As my hand seized
the idolatrous
kingdoms whose images surpassed
those
of Jerusalem and Samaria ,
As my hand hath
found
the kingdoms of
the
idols,
and
whose graven
images did
excel
them
of Jerusalem and of
Samaria ;
and
as I have done to
Samaria and its
idols, will
I
not
also
do to Jerusalem and her idols? ”
Shall
I
not,
as I have done unto
Samaria and her
idols, so
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
.
Wherefore
it
shall
come
to
pass,
that
when the Lord hath
performed
his whole
work upon
mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the
stout
heart of
the
king
of
Assyria,
and the glory
of
his high
looks
.
For he says:
‘
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.
For he saith,
By the strength of my hand I have done it
, and by my wisdom ;
for I am prudent:
and
I have removed the bounds
of the
people,
and have
robbed
their treasures ,
and
I
have
put
down
the
inhabitants
like a valiant
man:
My hand reached
as into
a nest 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
. ’”
And
my hand hath
found
as a nest the riches
of the people:
and
as
one gathereth
eggs that
are
left
, have
I gathered all the earth ;
and
there
was
none
that
moved
the
wing, or
opened the
mouth,
or peeped
.
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 !
Shall
the
axe boast
itself against
him
that
heweth
therewith
? or
shall
the
saw magnify
itself
against
him that
shaketh
it? as
if
the rod
should
shake
itself
against
them
that
lift
it up
, or as
if
the
staff should
lift
up
itself,
as
if
it
were
no
wood .
Therefore the Lord GOD
of Hosts will
send a
wasting
disease
among Assyria’s
stout
warriors,
and under his pomp
will
be
kindled
a fire
like a
burning flame
.
Therefore shall
the Lord ,
the
Lord
of hosts ,
send among his
fat
ones
leanness;
and under his glory
he
shall
kindle
a burning
like the
burning of
a
fire
.
And the Light of Israel will
become
a fire, and its
Holy One a flame .
In
a
single
day
it will
burn and devour Assyria’s
thorns and thistles.
And the light of Israel shall
be
for
a fire, and his
Holy One for
a flame :
and
it shall
burn and devour his
thorns and his
briers
in
one
day;
The splendor
of its
forests
and orchards
, both soul and body ,
it
will
completely
destroy,
as a
sickness
consumes
a man
.
And
shall
consume
the glory
of his
forest,
and of
his
fruitful
field
, both soul and body :
and
they
shall
be
as when
a standard-bearer
fainteth
.
The remaining
trees of its
forests
will
be so
few that a child could
count
them.
And
the rest
of
the
trees of his
forest
shall
be few ,
that a child may
write
them.
On
that day the remnant of Israel 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.
And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that day ,
that
the remnant of Israel ,
and such
as
are
escaped
of the house of Jacob ,
shall
no more
again
stay
upon
him that
smote
them ;
but shall
stay
upon
the LORD, the Holy One of Israel ,
in
truth
.
A
remnant will
return —a
remnant of Jacob —
to
the Mighty God.
The
remnant shall
return ,
even
the
remnant of Jacob ,
unto
the mighty God.
Though your
people ,
O
Israel ,
be like
the sand of the sea, only
a remnant will
return .
Destruction
has
been
decreed ,
overflowing
with righteousness.
For
though thy
people Israel be as
the sand of the sea, yet
a remnant of
them
shall
return :
the
consumption
decreed shall
overflow
with righteousness.
For the Lord GOD of Hosts will
carry
out
the destruction
decreed
upon
the whole
land.
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall
make
a
consumption,
even
determined,
in
the midst
of
all
the land.
Therefore this
is
what
the Lord GOD of Hosts says:
“
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
.
Therefore thus
saith
the Lord GOD of hosts ,
O my people that
dwellest
in Zion, be
not afraid
of
the
Assyrian:
he
shall
smite
thee
with a rod ,
and shall
lift
up
his staff against thee,
after
the manner
of
Egypt
.
For in
just
a little while My
fury
against
you
will
subside
, and My
anger will
turn
to
their destruction. ”
For yet
a very
little while, and the
indignation
shall
cease,
and
mine
anger in
their destruction.
And the LORD of Hosts will
brandish
a whip
against
them,
as
when
He
struck
Midian at the rock of Oreb .
He
will
raise
His staff
over
the sea, as
He did
in
Egypt.
And the LORD of hosts shall
stir
up
a scourge
for
him
according
to
the
slaughter
of
Midian at the rock of Oreb :
and
as
his rod
was
upon
the sea, so
shall
he lift
it
up
after
the
manner
of
Egypt.
On
that day the
burden will
be lifted
from your
shoulders
, and the
yoke from your
neck .
The yoke will
be broken
because your
neck
will
be
too
large
.
And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that day ,
that
his
burden shall
be taken
away
from off
thy
shoulder
, and his
yoke from off
thy
neck ,
and
the yoke shall
be destroyed
because of
the
anointing
.
Assyria
has
entered
Aiath and
passed through
Migron ,
storing
their
supplies
at Michmash .
He
is
come
to
Aiath ,
he
is
passed to
Migron ;
at Michmash he
hath
laid
up
his
carriages:
They have
crossed
at
the ford
: “We
will
spend
the
night
at Geba .”
Ramah trembles
; Gibeah of Saul flees
.
They are
gone
over
the passage
: they
have
taken
up
their
lodging
at Geba ;
Ramah is
afraid
; Gibeah of Saul is
fled
.
Cry
aloud
, O Daughter of Gallim !
Listen
, O Laishah!
O
wretched
Anathoth !
Lift
up
thy
voice
, O daughter of Gallim :
cause
it
to
be
heard
unto
Laish
, O poor
Anathoth .
Madmenah flees
; the people
of Gebim take
refuge
.
Madmenah is
removed
; the inhabitants
of Gebim gather
themselves
to
flee
.
Yet today
they
will
halt
at Nob ,
shaking
a
fist
at
the mount of Daughter Zion, at
the hill of Jerusalem.
As
yet shall
he
remain
at Nob that
day:
he
shall
shake
his
hand
against
the mount of the
daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Behold, the Lord GOD
of Hosts will
lop off
the branches
with terrifying
power.
The tall
trees
will
be cut
down, the lofty
ones
will
be felled
.
Behold, the Lord ,
the
LORD
of hosts ,
shall
lop the bough
with terror:
and
the high
ones
of
stature
shall
be hewn
down, and
the haughty
shall
be humbled
.
He will
clear
the forest
thickets with an
axe
, and Lebanon will
fall before
the
Mighty One.
And
he shall
cut
down
the thickets of
the
forest
with iron
, and Lebanon shall
fall by
a
mighty one.
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