15 Is the (A)axe to (B)boast itself over the one who chops with it?
Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it?
That would be like (C)a [a]club wielding those who lift it,
Or like (D)a rod lifting the one who is not wood.
16 Therefore the Lord, the [b]God of armies, will send a (E)wasting disease among his (F)stout warriors;
And under his (G)glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
17 And the (H)Light of Israel will become a fire and [c]Israel’s (I)Holy One a flame,
And it will (J)burn and devour [d]his thorns and his briars in a single day.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:15 Lit staff
  2. Isaiah 10:16 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  3. Isaiah 10:17 Lit his
  4. Isaiah 10:17 I.e., the Assyrian king’s forces

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