Isaiah 10:16-19
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Isaiah 10:16-19
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Therefore the Lord God of Hosts
will inflict an emaciating disease
on the well-fed of Assyria,
and He will kindle a burning fire
under its glory.
17 will inflict an emaciating disease
on the well-fed of Assyria,
and He will kindle a burning fire
under its glory.
Israel’s Light will become a fire,
and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
18 and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
He will completely destroy
the glory of its forests and orchards
as a sickness consumes a person.
19 the glory of its forests and orchards
as a sickness consumes a person.
The remaining trees of its forest
will be so few in number
that a child could count them.
will be so few in number
that a child could count them.