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15 Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it,
    or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro?
As if a rod should move the one who lifts it![a]
    As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood![b]
16 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors,
    and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.
17 And the light of Israel will become like a fire,
    and his holy one like a flame,
and it will burn and devour his thorns[c] and briers[d] in one day.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:15 Literally “As a rod waving even the one who lifts it up”
  2. Isaiah 10:15 Literally “As a staff lifting up not wood”
  3. Isaiah 10:17 Hebrew “thorn”
  4. Isaiah 10:17 Hebrew “brier”