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Isaiah 10:7
Isaiah 10:7 is verse 7 of Isaiah chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
King James Version
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
World English Bible
However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
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Isaiah 10:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6 I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
7 But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
8 “Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
9 “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
Micah 4:11But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
Micah 4:12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
Acts 13:27The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
Acts 13:28And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.
Acts 13:29When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
Acts 13:30But God raised Him from the dead,
Isaiah 36:18Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Isaiah 36:20Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
Isaiah 37:11Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
Isaiah 37:12Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
Isaiah 37:13Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”