Isaiah 10:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

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  • Isa 14:25 : 25 To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.
  • Isa 30:30 : 30 And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.
  • Isa 66:14 : 14 And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.
  • Jer 51:20-24 : 20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken; 21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken; 22 With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken; 23 With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken. 24 And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
  • Zeph 2:13 : 13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.
  • Gen 10:11 : 11 From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
  • Ps 125:3 : 3 For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.
  • Isa 8:4 : 4 For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
  • Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.
  • Isa 14:5-6 : 5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord; 6 He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

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  • Isa 10:4
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    4 ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Isa 10:6
    84%

    6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

  • Isa 10:24-26
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    83%

    24 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.

    25 For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

    26 And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.

  • Isa 30:30-32
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    79%

    30 And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

    31 For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.

    32 And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against him.

  • Isa 14:25-26
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    25 To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

    26 This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

  • Isa 10:11-13
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    75%

    11 So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

    12 For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

    13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;

  • Isa 5:25
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    25 For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

  • Ezek 21:31
    75%

    31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Jer 21:5
    74%

    5 And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath.

  • Hos 13:11
    74%

    11 I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.

  • Isa 31:8
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    8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

  • Isa 14:5-6
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    73%

    5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;

    6 He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

  • Zech 10:11
    73%

    11 And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.

  • Mic 5:6
    73%

    6 And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

  • Ezek 22:31
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    31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

  • Isa 37:18
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    18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,

  • Jer 15:14
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    14 They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.

  • Zeph 2:13
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    13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

  • Isa 63:6
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    6 And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

  • Ezek 5:15
    72%

    15 And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:

  • Isa 47:6
    72%

    6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

  • Ps 2:5
    72%

    5 Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

  • Ps 89:32
    72%

    32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

  • Ezek 25:14
    71%

    14 I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.

  • Jer 50:18
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    18 So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.

  • Isa 52:4
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    4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.

  • Hos 8:5
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    5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

  • Isa 9:12
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    12 Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Hos 11:5-6
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    71%

    5 He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.

    6 And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.

  • Hab 3:12
    71%

    12 You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.

  • Jer 33:5
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    5 ... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.

  • Ps 69:24
    71%

    24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

  • Zech 10:3
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    3 My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.

  • Isa 7:17
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    17 The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.

  • Zeph 3:8
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    8 For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.

  • Jer 50:25
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    25 From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.

  • Isa 1:24
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    24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

  • 2 Kgs 19:17
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    17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,

  • Ezek 5:13
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    13 So my wrath will be complete and my passion will come to rest on them; and they will be certain that I the Lord have given the word of decision, when my wrath against them is complete.