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What will you do on the day of Judgment,[a]
    in the calamity that will come from far away?
To whom will you run for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth,
so you won’t have to crouch among those in chains[b]
    or fall among the slain?

“Yet[c] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”[d]

Assyria is an Instrument of Judgment

“How terrible it will be
    for Assyria, the rod of my anger!
        The club is in their hands![e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:3 Lit. reckoning
  2. Isaiah 10:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read beneath prisoners
  3. Isaiah 10:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack Yet
  4. Isaiah 10:4 DSS MT lack ready to strike
  5. Isaiah 10:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads is their fury!