Isaiah 10:16-18

New International Reader's Version

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.
¹⁸ He will completely destroy the beauty
    of their forests and rich farm lands.
The Assyrian army will be like a sick person
    who becomes weaker and weaker.