Isaias 10 proclaims God's judgement on wayward leaders. "Woe to those who make unjust laws... who deprive the poor of their rights and rob orphans... making widows their prey". God therefore uses Assyria as "the rod of his anger" to castigate Israel. "I send him against a godless nation. I dispatch him against a people who anger me... when the Lord has finished all his work against Zion he will punish the king of Assyria because of his pride thinking that he can do what he likes! Then the light of Israel will become a flame and God will keep a faithful remnant of his people... the survivors of the house of Jacob... a remnant will return... O my people do not be afraid of the Assyrians who beat you with a rod... the Lord will lash them with a whip... the yoke will be broken... see the Lord Almighty will lop off the boughs with great power... Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One."
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