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


In Context

2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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?

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.

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

6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

7 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 10:5 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:5"Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

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 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.