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Isaiah 10:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. "
Isaiah 10:16
Verse in Context
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14 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.”
15 Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
16 Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
18 He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.
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Isaiah 10:1
"Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees"
Isaiah 10:2
"to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!"
Isaiah 10:3
"What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?"
Isaiah 10:4
"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."
Isaiah 10:5
"Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!"
Isaiah 10:6
"I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets."
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