Isaiah 10:5

In 11 translations

BSB

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

KJV

¶ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.O…: or, Woe to the Assyrian: Heb. Asshurand: or, though

WEB

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

ASV

Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

LSV

“Woe [to] Asshur, a rod of My anger, || And My indignation [is] a staff in their hand.

YLT

Woe [to] Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand [is] Mine indignation.

DBY

Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

DRC

Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.

GNV

O Asshur, the rodde of my wrath: and the staffe in their hands is mine indignation.

JPS

O Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, in whose hand as a staff is Mine indignation!

LXXE

Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

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WLC

ה֥וֹי אַשּׁ֖וּר שֵׁ֣בֶט אַפִּ֑י וּמַטֶּה־ה֥וּא בְיָדָ֖ם זַעְמִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Οὐαὶ Ἀσσυρίοις, ἡ ῥάβδος τοῦ θυμοῦ μου, καὶ ὀργή ἐστιν ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Isaiah 10:15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
• Jeremiah 51:20–24“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver. With you I shatter man and…
• Isaiah 14:25I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
• Zephaniah 2:13And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
• Isaiah 30:30And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
• Isaiah 14:5–6The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
• Isaiah 66:14When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
• Isaiah 13:5They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the LORD and the weapons of His wrath— to destroy the whole country.
• Genesis 10:11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
• Psalms 125:3For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
• Psalms 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
• Isaiah 8:4For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

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