Isaiah 10 — Septuagint (LXX)

'Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression' tracks MT. WOE-TO-LEGISLATIVE-INJUSTICE — Isaiah's-target is unjust-laws not-just unjust-actions. Modern-application to-systemic-injustice.

'To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!' tracks MT.

'What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?' tracks MT. DAY-OF-PUNISHMENT theology.

'Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still' tracks MT. // 9:12, 17, 21 refrain — final-occurrence.

'Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!' tracks MT. ASSYRIA-AS-DIVINE-ROD. Habakkuk 1:6 (Babylon-as-divine-instrument) parallels — God-uses-foreign-empires for-judgment then-judges-them in-turn.

'Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets' tracks MT.

'But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few' tracks MT. ASSYRIA'S-AGENDA-DIFFERS-FROM-GOD'S — divine-permission does-not equal divine-endorsement.

'For he says: Are not my commanders all kings?' tracks MT.

'Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?' tracks MT. CITY-LIST of-Assyrian-conquests.

'As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria' tracks MT.

'Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?' tracks MT.

'When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes' tracks MT. PUNISH-ASSYRIA-AFTER-USING-HER. Romans 11:25's 'partial hardening … until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in' shares the staged-judgment logic.

'For he says: By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones' tracks MT. ASSYRIAN-PRIDE confession.

'My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped' tracks MT.

'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!' tracks MT. AXE-BOASTING analogy — instrument-cannot-claim-credit-over-the-wielder. Romans 9:20–21 ('does the thing molded say to its molder: Why have you made me thus?') extends.

'Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire' tracks MT.

'The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day' tracks MT.

'The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away' tracks MT.

'The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down' tracks MT.

'In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth' tracks MT. REMNANT-RELIES-ON-LORD theology.

'A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God' tracks MT. REMNANT-WILL-RETURN (shear-jashub — recalling Isaiah's son-name 7:3). MIGHTY-GOD (el gibbor) — divine-title-attached-to-the-Messianic-child of 9:6.

'For the Lord GOD of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth' tracks MT. // Romans 9:28.

'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did' tracks MT.

'For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction' tracks MT.

'And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt' tracks MT.

'And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat' tracks MT. YOKE-BROKEN. Matthew 11:30 ('my yoke is easy and my burden is light') Christologically-inverts.

'He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage' tracks MT. ASSYRIAN-MARCH-ROUTE — geographical-list of approach-to-Jerusalem.

'They have crossed over the pass; at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled' tracks MT.

'Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Give attention, O Laishah! O poor Anathoth!' tracks MT.

'Madmenah is in flight; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety' tracks MT.

'This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem' tracks MT.

'Behold, the Lord GOD of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low' tracks MT. ASSYRIA-FELLED imagery — high-trees-cut-down.

'He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One' tracks MT. SETS-UP chapter 11 — from-the-fallen-forest, the SHOOT-FROM-JESSE'S-STUMP rises.