🕊️WEB · Isaiah 10:11

What does Isaiah 10:11 mean?

"shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?"

— Isaiah 10:11 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

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Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

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As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

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shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

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Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

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For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

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My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

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