Isaiah 10:15-17

New International Reader's Version

¹⁵ Does an ax claim to be more important
    than the person who swings it?
Does a saw brag that it is better
    than the one who uses it?
That would be like a stick
    swinging the person who picks it up!
It would be like a war club
    waving the one who carries it!
¹⁶ So the Lord who rules over all will send a sickness.
    The Lord will send it on the king of Assyria’s strong fighting men.
    It will make them weaker and weaker.
The army he was so proud of will be completely destroyed.
    It will be as if it had been burned up in a fire.
¹⁷ The Lord is the Light of Israel.
    He will become a fire.
    Israel’s Holy One will become a flame.
In a single day he will burn up all Assyria’s bushes.
    He will destroy all their thorns.