1 Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; Compare verse1 commentary
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! Compare verse1 commentary
3 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory? Compare verse3 commentaries
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Compare verse1 commentary
5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation. Compare verse1 commentary
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Compare verse1 commentary
7 However, he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. Compare verse1 commentary
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? Compare verse1 commentary
10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; Compare verse1 commentary
11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? Compare verse1 commentary
12 Why it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work on mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. Compare verse1 commentary
13 For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: Compare verse4 commentaries
14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Compare verse4 commentaries
15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that hews therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shakes it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. Compare verse3 commentaries
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. Compare verse1 commentary
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; Compare verse2 commentaries
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints. Compare verse1 commentary
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. Compare verse1 commentary
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay on him that smote them; but shall stay on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. Compare verse1 commentary
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. Compare verse9 commentaries
23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the middle of all the land. Compare verse7 commentaries
24 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt. Compare verse1 commentary
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction. Compare verse1 commentary
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a whip for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was on the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. Compare verse1 commentary
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Compare verse3 commentaries
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he has laid up his carriages: Compare verse1 commentary
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. Compare verse1 commentary
30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard to Laish, O poor Anathoth. Compare verse1 commentary
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. Compare verse1 commentary
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. Compare verse1 commentary
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. Compare verse2 commentaries
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. Compare verse5 commentaries