7But 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.


In Context

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.

8 'Are not my commanders all kings?' he says.

9 'Has not Calno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?

Isaiah 10:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:7But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7However 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7And he — he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For — to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:7However, he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.