Isaiah 10:17-19
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15-19 Does an ax take over from the one who swings it?
Does a saw act more important than the sawyer?
As if a shovel did its shoveling by using a ditch digger!
As if a hammer used the carpenter to pound nails!
Therefore the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
will send a debilitating disease on his robust Assyrian fighters.
Under the canopy of God’s bright glory
a fierce fire will break out.
Israel’s Light will burst into a conflagration.
The Holy will explode into a firestorm,
And in one day burn to cinders
every last Assyrian thornbush.
God will destroy the splendid trees and lush gardens.
The Assyrian body and soul will waste away to nothing
like a disease-ridden invalid.
A child could count what’s left of the trees
on the fingers of his two hands.
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Isaiah 10:17-19
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17 The Light of Israel will become a fire,(A)
their Holy One(B) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
his thorns(C) and his briers.(D)
18 The splendor of his forests(E) and fertile fields
it will completely destroy,(F)
as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests(G) will be so few(H)
that a child could write them down.
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