🕊️WEB · Isaiah 10:7
What does Isaiah 10:7 mean?
"However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations."
— Isaiah 10:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
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