15 Does an ax exalt itself
above the one who chops with it?
Does a saw magnify itself
above the one who saws with it?
It would be like a rod waving the ones who lift[a] it!
It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn’t wood!
16 Therefore the Lord God of Armies
will inflict an emaciating disease
on the well-fed of Assyria,
and he will kindle a burning fire
under its glory.
17 Israel’s Light will become a fire,
and its Holy One, a flame.(A)
In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:15 Some Hb mss; other Hb mss, Syr, Vg read the one who lifts

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