5"Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!


In Context

2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

3 What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

5 "Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

6 I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

7 But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.

Isaiah 10:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:5Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:5Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:5Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:5Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:5O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:5Woe to Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand is Mine indignation.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:5O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.