Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. 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 …

10 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

5 “Woe to Assyria, () the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation. 6 I will send him against () an ungodly nation, And against the people of My wrath I will () give him charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

10 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to …

Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew I; Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew fruit; Isaiah 10:27 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—

Isaiah 10:1 Lit harm; Isaiah 10:2 Lit turn the needy aside from; Isaiah 10:2 Or fatherless; Isaiah 10:4 Lit under; Isaiah 10:4 Lit under; Isaiah 10:6 Lit make them a trampled place; Isaiah 10:7 Lit its heart so plan; Isaiah 10:7 Lit in its heart; Isaiah 10:7 Lit not a few; Isaiah 10:8 Lit altogether; Isaiah 10:12 Lit visit; Isaiah 10:13 Or ...

10 “As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images were greater and more feared than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11 Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?” [declares Assyria].

The Remnant of Israel - In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

10 1-4 Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims— Laws that make misery for the poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, Exploiting defenseless widows, taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you?