Isa 10:15-16, 33-34, 14:25, 25:4-5, 27:1, 30:30-33, 31:8-9, 33:1-3, 9-12 | ESV | STEP | Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood !

15 Shall ^athe axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts
will send wasting sickness among his ^bstout warriors,
and under his glory ^ca burning will be kindled,
like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 10:33-34

33 Behold, the Lord God of hosts
^dwill lop ^ethe boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
and the lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down ^fthe thickets of the forest with an axe,
and ^gLebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

Isaiah 14:25

25 that ^hI will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and ⁱhis yoke shall depart from them,
and ^jhis burden from their shoulder.”

Isaiah 25:4-5

4 ^kFor you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
^la shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
^mfor the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5 ⁿlike heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.

Isaiah 27:1

The Redemption of Israel

1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong ^osword will punish ^pLeviathan the fleeing serpent, ^qLeviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay ^rthe dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 30:30-33

30 And the Lord ^swill cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger ^tand a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst ^uand storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, ^vwhen he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them ^wwill be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. ^xBattling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For ^ya burning place ^{▼▼Or For Topheth} has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, ^aaits pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; ^abthe breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Isaiah 31:8-9

8 ^ac“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be ^adput to forced labor.
9 ^aeHis rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the Lord, whose ^affire is in Zion,
and whose ^agfurnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 33:1-3

O Lord, Be Gracious to Us

1 ^ahAh, you destroyer,
who yourself have not been destroyed,
you traitor,
whom none has betrayed!
When you have ceased to destroy,
you will be destroyed;
and when you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.
2 O Lord, be gracious to us; ^aiwe wait for you.
Be our arm every morning,
our salvation in the time of trouble.
3 ^ajAt the tumultuous noise peoples flee;
when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,

Isaiah 33:9-12

9 ^akThe land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10 ^al“Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
“now I will lift myself up;
now I will be exalted.
11 ^amYou conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;
your breath is ^ana fire that will consume you.
12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
^aolike thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”