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The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria

“Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger,[a]
a cudgel with which I angrily punish.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:5 tn Heb “Woe [to] Assyria, the club of my anger.”
  2. Isaiah 10:5 tn Heb “a cudgel is he, in their hand is my anger.” It seems likely that the final mem (ם) on בְיָדָם (beyadam) is not a pronominal suffix (“in their hand”), but an enclitic mem. If so, one can translate literally, “a cudgel is he in the hand of my anger.”

Judecata Domnului asupra Asiriei

„Vai de asirian, nuiaua mâniei Mele,
    cel care ţine în mâna lui ciomagul furiei Mele!

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