🕊️WEB · Isaiah 10:22

What does Isaiah 10:22 mean?

"For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness."

— Isaiah 10:22 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

20

It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

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For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

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For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.

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Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

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For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

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