To keep back the poor from judgment, and to take away the judgment of the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may spoil the fatherless.

What will ye do now in the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from [a]far? to whom will ye flee for help and where will ye leave your [b]glory?

[c]Without me everyone shall fall among them that are bound, and they shall fall down among the slain: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:3 To wit, from Assyria.
  2. Isaiah 10:3 Your riches and authority, that they may be safe, and that ye may receive them again.
  3. Isaiah 10:4 Because they have forsaken me, some shall go into captivity, and the rest shall be slain.

to deprive(A) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,(B)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.(C)
What will you do on the day of reckoning,(D)
    when disaster(E) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(F)
    Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(G)
    or fall among the slain.(H)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(I)
    his hand is still upraised.

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