Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Woe
to those who
enact
unjust
statutes
and
issue
oppressive
decrees,
Wo
`
to '
those decreeing
decrees of
iniquity
, And
writers
who
have
prescribed
perverseness.
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
from
judgment
the poor ,
And to
take
violently
away
the judgment
Of the
afflicted
of
My people, That
widows may
be
their prey ,
That
the
fatherless
they
may
spoil
.
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 do ye
at
a
day of inspection?
And
at
desolation?
--
from afar it
cometh.
Near
whom do
ye
flee for help? And
where do
ye
leave your honour
?
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
it
hath
bowed
down
In
the place
of
a
bound
one,
And
in
the place
of
the
slain they
fall
. With
all this not turned back
hath
His anger,
And
still
His
hand is stretched
out
.
Woe
to Assyria
, the
rod of My
anger ;
the
staff in their hands
is My
wrath
.
Wo
`
to '
Asshur
, a
rod of Mine
anger ,
And
a
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
.
Against a profane
nation I send
him ,
And
concerning
a people of
My wrath
I
charge
him
, To spoil
spoil,
and to
seize prey
, And to make
it
a
treading-place
as
the clay
of
out
places
.
But
this
is
not his intention;
this
is
not his
plan.
For it
is in his heart to
destroy
and cut off many
nations.
And
he
--
he
thinketh
not so,
And
his heart
reckoneth
not so,
For --
to
destroy
`
is '
in his heart ,
And to
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
got
to
the kingdoms of a
worthless
thing,
and
their
graven
images,
`Greater'
than
Jerusalem and than
Samaria,
and
as I have done to Samaria and its
idols
, will
I
not
also
do to Jerusalem and her idols
? ”
Do
I
not
--
as I have done to Samaria ,
And to
her
worthless
things
, So
do to Jerusalem and to
her grievous
things
?
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.
And
it
hath
come
to
pass,
When the Lord doth
fulfil
all His work In
mount Zion and in
Jerusalem, I see
concerning
the fruit
of the greatness
Of the
heart of
the
king
of
Asshur.
And concerning
the glory
of
the
height
of
his eyes.
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 hath
said,
`
By the power
of my hand I have wrought
, And by my wisdom, for I have been
intelligent,
And
I
remove
borders
of the
peoples,
And their chief
ones
I
have
spoiled,
And
I
put
down
as
a mighty one the
inhabitants,
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 as to
a nest Getteth
to the wealth of the peoples,
And
as
a
gathering of
forsaken
eggs All the earth I
--
I
have
gathered,
And
there
hath
not
been
one
moving
wing, Or opening
mouth,
or
whispering
. '
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!
--
Doth
the
axe glorify
itself Against
him
who is
hewing
with
it? Doth
the
saw magnify
itself
Against
him who is
shaking
it? As
a rod waving those
lifting
it up!
As
a staff lifting up
that
which
is not 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 doth
the Lord ,
the
Lord
of Hosts ,
Send among his
fat
ones
leanness
, And under his honour
He
kindleth
a burning As
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 hath
been
for
a fire, And his
Holy One for
a flame ,
And
it hath
burned,
and devoured
his
thorn
And his
brier
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
the honour
of his
forest,
and his
fruitful
field
, From
soul even
unto
flesh
He
doth
consume
, And
it hath
been
as the
fainting
of
a standard-bearer
.
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
`are'
few ,
And
a youth
doth
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
hath
come
to
pass,
in
that day ,
The remnant of Israel ,
And the escaped
of the house of Jacob ,
Do
not
add
any
more
to
lean
on its
smiter
, And
have
leant
on Jehovah
, The Holy One of Israel ,
in
truth
.
A remnant will
return
—
a remnant of Jacob —
to
the Mighty God.
A remnant returneth
--
a 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, A remnant doth
return of
it
, A
consumption
determined,
Overflowing `
with '
righteousness.
For the Lord GOD
of Hosts will
carry
out
the destruction
decreed
upon
the whole
land.
For a
consumption
that
is
determined,
The Lord ,
Jehovah
of Hosts ,
Is
making
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
said
the Lord ,
Jehovah
of Hosts ,
`Be
not
afraid,
my people ,
inhabiting
Zion, because
of
Asshur
, With a rod he
doth
smite
thee,
And his staff lifteth
up
against thee,
in
the way
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, And the
indignation
hath
been
completed,
And
Mine
anger by
their wearing
out
.
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 awaking
for
him
is
Jehovah
of Hosts, A
scourge
like
the
smiting
of
Midian at the rock Oreb ,
And
his rod
`is'
over the sea, And
he hath
lifted
it
in the
way
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
hath
come
to
pass,
in
that day ,
Turned
is
his
burden from off
thy
shoulder
, And his
yoke from off
thy
neck ,
And
destroyed
hath
been
the yoke ,
because of
prosperity
.
Assyria
has
entered
Aiath and
passed through
Migron, storing
their
supplies
at Michmash.
He
hath
come
in
against
Aiath ,
He
hath
passed over
into
Migron, At Michmash he
looketh
after
his
vessels
.
They have crossed
at
the
ford:
“We
will
spend
the night
at
Geba .”
Ramah
trembles;
Gibeah of Saul flees
.
They have gone
over
the passage,
Geba they
have
made
a
lodging
place,
Trembled
hath
Rama,
Gibeah of Saul fled
.
Cry aloud, O
Daughter of Gallim !
Listen
, O
Laishah
! O
wretched
Anathoth !
Cry aloud `with'
thy
voice
, daughter of Gallim, Give
attention,
Laish
! answer
her,
Anathoth .
Madmenah flees;
the people
of Gebim
take
refuge
.
Fled
away
hath
Madmenah ,
The inhabitants
of the
high
places
have
hardened
themselves
.
Yet today
they
will
halt
at
Nob, shaking
a
fist
at
the mount of Daughter Zion, at
the hill of Jerusalem.
Yet to-day
in
Nob to
remain
, Wave
its
hand
doth
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.
Lo
, the Lord ,
Jehovah
of Hosts ,
Is
lopping
a
branch
with violence,
And
the high
of
stature
are
cut down, And
the lofty are
become
low,
He will
clear
the forest
thickets with an
axe
, and Lebanon will
fall
before
the
Mighty One .
And
He hath
gone
round
the thickets of
the
forest
with iron
, And Lebanon by
a
mighty one falleth!
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